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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#m1)

2) A clothes peg is a small clip for hanging washing on a line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#m2)

3) A tent peg is a pointed stick pushed into the ground to hold a tent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#m3)

4) (verb) To peg is to fasten something with pegs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#m4)

5) A peg can also be a wooden pin that you pull to open a latch or door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#x1)
- Pass me the pegs so I can hang up the washing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#x2)
- We hammered the tent pegs into the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#x3)
- Mum pegged the sheets on the line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#x4)
- My peg has my name and a picture on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#x5)
- The pirate had a wooden peg leg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#x6)
- Make a pattern on the pegboard with coloured pegs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#x7)
- Little Red Riding-Hood pulled the peg, and the door opened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/1-alice-ch1-part1-down-the-rabbit-hole/13/)
- [His cap is missing from its peg and his new goloshes from beside the umbrella-stand.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/10/)
- [«The Mole's cap was missing from its accustomed peg.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/28/)
- [Leave a campsite as you found it, and walk carefully between tents because ropes and pegs trip people up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/230-hiking-and-camping/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «peg» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/peg/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.