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Pegging

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hangingnounSuspended.
tracingnounThe process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.
linkingnounServing to connect other things together.
linknounA connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
associatingverb(intransitive) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
peggernounA person who pegs (in any sense).
tent pegnounA peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent.
peg dopenounA substance used to lubricate the pegs of a string instrument and to provide friction between the pegs and the strings
peg floatnoun(historical) A machine for rasping away the ends of pegs inside shoes.
pegletnounA little peg.
clothes-pegnounAlternative form of clothes peg. [(British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada) An object (usually made of wood or plastic) used to attach wet laundry to a clothesline so that it (the laundry) can dry.]
knagnounA peg or hook for hanging something on
hatpegnounA peg for hanging a hat.
turtle-pegnounAlternative spelling of turtle peg. [A spike attached to a cord or rod, used for catching sea turtles.]
peg-fichednoun(UK, obsolete) A West Country game played with sharp-pointed stakes: one is thrust into the ground and the others are thrown in an attempt to dislodge it. If this succeeds, the player who planted the stake attempts to run a certain distance and back before the others can beat it all the way into the ground.
pegonoun(archaic, slang) The penis.
taper pinnounA tapered self-holding peg or pin used to connect parts together
screw pegnounA small headless screw for fastening soles.
pegheadnoun(music) The part of a stringed instrument, at the end of the neck, that holds the pegs or mechanical tuners used to control string tension.
pegboxnoun(music, lutherie) The part of a violin or similar stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs.

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