Synonyms for pegging

Grammar : Verb

Spell : peg

Phonetic Transcription : pɛg

Définition of pegging

Origin : mid-15c., from Middle Dutch pegge "peg," a common Low German word (cf. Low German pigge "peg," German Pegel "gauge rod, watermark," Middle Dutch pegel "little knob used as a mark," Dutch peil "gauge, watermark, standard"), of uncertain origin; perhaps from PIE *bak- "staff used as support" (see bacillus). To be a square peg in a round hole "be inappropriate for one's situation" is attested from 1836; to take someone down a peg is from 1580s, but the original literal sense is uncertain (most of the likely candidates are not attested until centuries later). Peg leg "wooden leg" attested from 1765.

verb attach

Example sentences :

I wish you were on a job like this, instead of pegging away at your piano.
Extract from : « Jane Journeys On » by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Isn't he pegging away at his studies with my hearty approval?
Extract from : « Beautiful Joe » by Marshall Saunders

Then we ascended to the second story, where sewing and pegging were going on.
Extract from : « The Secret Service. » by Albert D. Richardson

It was the pegging out of a claim which has been made effective.
Extract from : « Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists » by Various

"Not a bit of it," said East bitterly, pegging away with his pencil.
Extract from : « Tom Brown's School Days » by Thomas Hughes

He was as weak as a rat, and I know he came very near "pegging out."
Extract from : « At Suvla Bay » by John Hargrave

"Not a bit of it," said East, bitterly, pegging away with his pencil.
Extract from : « Tom Brown at Rugby » by Thomas Hughes

For days I had been pegging away at a task which refused to get itself accomplished.
Extract from : « Optimism » by Helen Keller

So far you have only been pegging out the ground it is going to occupy.
Extract from : « The Practice and Science Of Drawing » by Harold Speed

Here we've been for a week pegging away at this Bill, bargaining and bickering.
Extract from : « Punch Volume 102, May 28, 1892 » by Various

Antonyms for pegging

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