| 单词 | peg |
| 释义 | Word Frequency peg(pɛɡ) noun 1. a small cylindrical pin or dowel, sometimes slightly tapered, used to join two parts together 2. a pin pushed or driven into a surface: used to mark scores, define limits, support coats, etc 3. music any of several pins passing through the head (peg box) of a stringed instrument, which can be turned so as to tune strings wound around them See also pin (sense 11)4. Also called: clothes peg British a split or hinged pin for fastening wet clothes to a line to dry US and Canadian equivalent: clothespin 5. informal a person's leg 6. Northern England dialect a tooth 7. British a small drink of wine or spirits, esp of brandy or whisky and soda 8. an opportunity or pretext for doing something a peg on which to hang a theory 9. a mountaineering piton 10. croquet a post that a player's ball must strike to win the game 11. angling a fishing station allotted to an angler in a competition, marked by a peg in the ground 12. informal a level of self-esteem, importance, etc (esp in the phrases bring or take down a peg) 13. informal peg leg 14. off the peg verbWord forms: pegs, pegging or pegged 15. (transitive) to knock or insert a peg into or pierce with a peg 16. (transitive; sometimes foll by down) to secure with pegs to peg a tent 17. mountaineering to insert or use pitons 18. (transitive) to mark (a score) with pegs, as in some card games 19. (transitive) informal to aim and throw (missiles) at a target 20. (intr; foll by away, along, etc) mainly British to work steadily he pegged away at his job for years 21. (transitive) to stabilize (the price of a commodity, an exchange rate, etc) by legislation or market operations Word origin C15: from Low Germanic pegge |
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