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1. A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
   - nog
    
2. Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
   - pin
    
3. Informal term for the leg
   - pin, stick
    
4. A prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
   - wooden leg, leg, pegleg
    
5. Regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
    
6. A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
   - pin, thole, tholepin, rowlock [Brit], oarlock [N. Amer]

1. Succeed in obtaining a position
   - nail down, nail
    
2. Pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
    
3. Fasten or secure with a wooden pin
   "peg a tent"
   - peg down
    
4. Stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
   "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"

Derived forms: pegged, pegs, pegging

See also: peg down

Type of: attach, bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, holder, leg, mark, marker, marking, pierce, pin, prosthesis, prosthetic device, regulator, stabilise [Brit], stabilize, succeed, thrust, win

Part of: dinghy, dory, rowboat [N. Amer], rowing boat [Brit], stringed instrument

Encyclopedia: Peg