1. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
   "He used wooden pegs instead of nails to join the furniture pieces";
   - nog
    
2. [Brit] Wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline
   "She secured the sheets to the clothesline with pegs";
   - clothespin [N. Amer], clothes pin [N. Amer], clothes peg [Brit]
    
3. A small marker inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
   "He moved his peg forward on the cribbage board";
   - pin
    
4. Regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
   "He carefully adjusted the pegs on his violin to tune it"
    
5. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
   "The old fisherman's boat still had traditional wooden pegs";
   - pin, thole, tholepin, rowlock [Brit], oarlock [N. Amer]
    
6. [informal] A human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
   "fever left him weak on his pegs";
   - leg, pin [informal], stick [informal]
    
7. [informal] A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
   "The pirate in the story had a peg leg";
   - wooden leg, leg, pegleg [informal], peg leg [informal]

1. Fasten or secure with a wooden pin
   "peg a tent";
   - peg down
    
2. Pierce with a wooden pin, knock or thrust a wooden pin into
   "They pegged the tent to the ground"
    
3. Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
   "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"
    
4. [N. Amer] Ascribe an attribute to (a person); categorize
   "He's been pegged as a suspect"
    
5. [Brit] Attach laundry to a line with clothes pegs
   "She pegged the wet shirts on the washing line to dry"
    
6. [informal] Succeed in obtaining a position
   "He pegged a spot at Harvard";
   - nail down [informal], nail [informal]

1. A water-soluble synthetic polymer composed of repeating ethylene glycol units, widely used in industrial, commercial, medical, and pharmaceutical applications
   "PEG is used as a laxative in medical treatments and to modify drugs for improved pharmacokinetics";
   - polyethylene glycol

Derived forms: pegs, pegging, pegged

See also: narrow down

Type of: attach, bring home the bacon [informal], come through, come up trumps [Brit, informal], deliver the goods, fastener, fastening, fixing, holder, holdfast, limb, mark, marker, marking, pierce, pin, prosthesis, prosthetic, prosthetic device, regulator, stabilise [Brit], stabilize, succeed, thrust, turn up trumps [Brit, informal], win

Part of: body, dinghy, dory, organic structure, rowboat [N. Amer], rowing boat [Brit], stringed instrument

Encyclopedia: Peg