peg

«peg» in Mova's school dictionary: a small hook or stick on a wall for hanging things, like… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a peg, pegs); verb (peg, pegs, pegged, pegging)

meaning for a pupil

1) A peg is a small hook or stick on a wall for hanging things, like coats. tree →

2) A clothes peg is a small clip for hanging washing on a line. tree →

3) A tent peg is a pointed stick pushed into the ground to hold a tent. tree →

4) (verb) To peg is to fasten something with pegs. tree →

5) A peg can also be a wooden pin that you pull to open a latch or door. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used at school: children hang coats and bags on their peg. In everyday life: pegging out washing. Camping: hammer in the tent pegs. Maths: pegboards for patterns. Phrase: "take someone down a peg" means make a proud person less proud.

examples

• Hang your coat on your peg. tree →
• Pass me the pegs so I can hang up the washing. tree →
• We hammered the tent pegs into the ground. tree →
• Mum pegged the sheets on the line. tree →
• My peg has my name and a picture on it. tree →
• The pirate had a wooden peg leg. tree →
• Make a pattern on the pegboard with coloured pegs. tree →
• Little Red Riding-Hood pulled the peg, and the door opened. tree →

note

Countable: a peg, two pegs. Verb doubles the g: pegged, pegging. US "clothespin" = UK "clothes peg".

In the corpora

• The sides of the well were filled with cupboards and book-shelves, with maps and pictures hung on pegs.
• His cap is missing from its peg and his new goloshes from beside the umbrella-stand.
• «The Mole's cap was missing from its accustomed peg.
• Leave a campsite as you found it, and walk carefully between tents because ropes and pegs trip people up.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «peg» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.