Crossword-Solution: PEGTOPS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Steepleton and Miss Maypole hopped together like a pair of lively young ostriches, and Ned Amandine, the village beau, blew arrows through a pop-gun, like a modern Cupid in pegtops instead of pinions.

The usual toy of the children is the bow and arrow, with which they are seldom expert; they are said also to spin pegtops like the English, climb a greased pole, and run round with a beam turning horizontally on an upright, to which it is attached by a pivot.

This species might well be called "the Arabic writing-master." The eggs of the water-pheasant are in shape like pegtops without the peg.

Bruce had hinted to him that his usual garb might look a little formal and odd at a theatre, and had persuaded him to come to his own egregious Camford tailor, Mr Fitfop, who, as a particular favour to his customer Bruce, produced with suspicious celerity the cut-away coat and mauve-coloured pegtops, in which unwonted splendour Hazlet was now arrayed.

There was the Broadway swell in patent-leather boots and trousers strapped tightly down, in the style the boys irreverently called pegtops.