Crossword-Solution: PEG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Peg | n. | A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg. |
| Peg | n. | A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon. |
| Peg | n. | One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained. |
| Peg | n. | One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board. |
| Peg | n. | A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg." |
| Peg | v. t. | To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely. |
| Peg | v. t. | To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. |
| Peg | v. i. | To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task. |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PEG (5)
Mombi bade the boy light a candle, while she put her basket in a cupboard and hung her cloak on a peg.
Next I thought I would measure off the French reigns, and peg them alongside the English ones, so that we could always have contemporaneous French history under our eyes as we went our English rounds.
How can they get loose when there’s a guard over them, ready to shoot them down if they move a peg?” “A guard! Well, that _is_ good.
Then Jubiter Dunlap stayed where he was, and the other man lugged the dead body off in the twilight; and after midnight he went to Uncle Silas’s house, and took his old green work-robe off of the peg where it always hangs in the passage betwixt the house and the kitchen and put it on, and stole the long-handled shovel and went off down into the tobacker field and buried the murdered man.” He stopped, and stood half a minute.
Come.” He reached up for her big, rough straw hat that hung on a peg outside the door, and put it on her head.
Quotes with PEG (3)
Wear that scarf," he said, pointing to a blue cashmere scarf hanging on a peg. "It matches your eyes." Alec looked at it. Suddenly he was filled with hate - for the scarf, for Magnus, and most of all for himself. "Don't tell me," he said. "The scarf's a hundred years old, and it was given to you by Queen Victoria right before she died, for special services to the Crown or something." Magnus sat up. "What's gotten into you?" Alec stared at him. "Am I the newest thing in this a…
How could I have ever loved Peg? I love you." And too late, he realized that the words he had just spoken were the truth. He closed his eyes, holding her even more tightly, allowing himself to finally realize and identify his feelings. He was stunned by their enormity, their intensity, their power.~Sean O'Neill
Science is getting knocked on all sides these days, not only from religious fundamentalists, but from all kinds of people who perceive science as arrogant, one-sided, and the source of the troubles that come with the technology it produces. It's true that individu L scientists can be so arrogant and narrowly focused, they're blind to any but their own truths, and that new discoveries bring new problems with them. Still, I don't know many people who would refuse a biopsy for a…
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 514 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).