| 单词 | pegging-away |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspegging-away b. With adverbs, as pegging-away, pegging-down, pegging-out, pegging-up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > forming or marking boundary > with stakes pegging-out1890 staking1952 1672–3 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 262 You have made my Lord Summus Pontifex and Pontifex Maximus to..the pegging out of the Prince. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Apr. 6/1 No doubt there will be new ‘peggings up.’ 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. iii. 78 The adjacent lot..was to be had for the pegging-out first. 1899 M. H. Kingsley W. Afr. Stud. i. 7 Then follows full details of the pegging-out of J. and his funeral, &c. 1926 T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (subscribers' ed.) lxvii. 352 They told me something of Davenport's work: of his continual pegging away in Abdulla's sector. 1948 G. 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. 2003 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 31 Dec. The pegging-out of one basket of washing. < as lemmas |
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