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pegging, vbl. n.|ˈpɛgɪŋ|
[f. peg v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the vb. peg in various senses.
1611Cotgr., Chevilleure, a pegging; a fastening with pegs. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden cii. 317 Called..Beare⁓foot, Setterwort, and Settergrasse, because Husbandmen use to make a hole, and put it into the Eare or Dewlap of their cattle, which they call Pegging or Settering. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Mrs. Battel, The pegging [at cribbage] teased her. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 446 The poor animal has..to undergo the painful operations of pegging, blistering, swimming, and firing. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss. s.v. Peg. 1884 Symonds in Pall Mall G. 22 Feb. 2/2 Propelling his toboggin with the sticks—or ‘pegging’, as it is technically called. 1885New Bk. Sports 311 A great many boys never master the true overhand fashion of pegging. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right iii. 32 The adjacent lot..was to be had for the pegging-out first. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars lxvii. 352 They told me something of Davenport's work: of his continual pegging away in Abdulla's sector. 1931Observer 11 Jan. 19/1 Mr. Scultin's views about the pegging of wages are unknown. 1948G. Crowther Outl. Money (rev. ed.) viii. 248 ‘Pegging’ has usually meant ‘pegging up’, but we can invent the term ‘pegging down’ for the practice that grew up among some governments in the nineteen-thirties of maintaining their currencies at a fixed undervaluation. 1977Times 24 Dec. 9/3 Continental motoring will be given added impetus..by the pegging of most cross-Channel ferry prices.
b. level-pegging: see as main entry.
2. concr. Pegs collectively, material for pegs.
†b. dial. (see quots.).
1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. VI. iii. 60 This we call Peggings, being composed of those Corals that were swept off that Heap of Wheat after Throwing. 1750― Country Housew. 2 What we in Hertfordshire call Peggings..being what comes from the Underline or Blighted, or other Wheat Ears, most of which contain in them very thin little Kernels, that will easily part from their Chaff.
3. attrib. and Comb.: pegging-awl, an awl for drilling holes for the pegs of shoes; pegging-jack: see quot.; pegging-machine, a machine for driving in the pegs of shoes; pegging-rammer: see quot.; pegging-top = peg-top.
1765Chron. in Ann. Reg. 158/2, 85 pair of shoemakers nippers and pincers, 33 pegging-awls, 37 awls of other sorts. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 88 Pegging-awl..has 4 sharp edges towards the point, and is smaller than a stabber. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1648/2 Pegging-jack, an implement for holding a boot or shoe and varying its position while being pegged. Ibid. 1650/1 Pegging-rammer (Founding), a pointed rammer for packing the sand in molding. 1899Century Mag. Oct. 958/1 The poor boy's comin' roun' as fast as a peggin'-top. |