peg

木[金属, 竹]钉; 栓; 销; 桩; 轴柱; 支柱; 弦轴; 棒

【建】测标, 标桩;【植】胚栓

(插, 桶)塞; 插脚

尖头物体; 爪; (晒衣服用的)衣夹; 帽挂

原因, 借口

栓与栓的间隔; [喻]等级; (物价的)限定标准

[俚]苏打水与白兰地的混合饮料

假腿; 装假腿的人

牙齿

[pl. ][口]腿; 裤子

(棒球)投球

peg

a small cylindrical pin or dowel, sometimes slightly tapered, used to join two parts together

a pin pushed or driven into a surface: used to mark scores, define limits, support coats, etc

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 themSee pin

Also called: clothes peg a split or hinged pin for fastening wet clothes to a line to dryUS and Canadian equivalent clothespin

a person's leg

a tooth

a small drink of wine or spirits, esp of brandy or whisky and soda

an opportunity or pretext for doing something

a mountaineering piton

a post that a player's ball must strike to win the game

a fishing station allotted to an angler in a competition, marked by a peg in the ground

a level of self-esteem, importance, etc (esp in the phrases bring or take down a peg)

See peg leg

to knock or insert a peg into or pierce with a peg

to secure with pegs

to insert or use pitons

to mark (a score) with pegs, as in some card games

to aim and throw (missiles) at a target

to work steadily

to stabilize (the price of a commodity, an exchange rate, etc) by legislation or market operations

See peg down See peg out