Peg

peg, n. a wooden pin for fastening boards, or the soles of shoes: one of the pins on which the strings of a musical instrument are stretched: a reason or excuse for action: a drink of soda-water with brandy, .: a degree or step.— v.t. to fasten with a peg: to keep up the market price by buying or selling at a fixed price: to make points during the game of cribbage before the show of hands.— v.i. to work with unremitting effort:— pr.p. peg′ging; pa.t. and pa.p. pegged.— ns. Peg′-fiched , an English game played with pegs or pointed sticks; Peg′-float , a machine for rasping away the ends of pegs inside shoes.— adj. Pegged , fashioned of, or furnished with, pegs.— ns. Peg′ging , the act of fastening with a peg: pegs collectively: a thrashing: determined perseverance in work; Peg′-leg , a wooden leg of the simplest form, or one who walks on such; Peg′-strip , a ribbon of wood cut to the width, ., of a shoe-peg; Peg′-tank′ard , a drinking-ve el having each one's share marked off by a knob; Peg′-top , a child's plaything made to spin round by winding a string round it and then rapidly pulling it off: ( pl. ) a kind of trousers, wide at the top and narrow at the ankles.— adj. shaped like a top.— Peg away , to keep continually working.— Take down a peg , to take down, to humble. [Scand.; as in Dan. pig , a spike.]