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Definition of Peg down
1. Verb. Fasten or secure with a wooden pin. "Peg a tent"
2. Verb. Define clearly. "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game"
Generic synonyms: Determine
Specialized synonyms: Concretize
Derivative terms: Specifier
Definition of Peg down
1. Verb. to fasten soemthing to the ground using pegs. ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) to identify clearly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peg Down
Literary usage of Peg down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1901)
"... set (hence, to peg down). Der. propagandist, a coined word ; from the name of
the society entitled Congregatio de propaganda fide. constituted at Rome, ..."
2. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. (1857)
"Verbenas, take off cuttings of those varieties intended for next year's growth ;
peg down ; water in dry weather, and save seed. ..."
3. Floricultural Cabinet and Florists' Magazine. (1856)
"peg down the spreading dwarf species, and neatly tie up the rest to small ...
To increase them, the best plan is to peg down some strong outside shoots, ..."
4. The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists Magazine by Joseph Harrison (1856)
"peg down the spreading dwarf species, and neatly tie up the rest to small ...
To increase them, the best plan is to peg down some strong outside shoots, ..."
5. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1894)
"One single Point, on which you are to fix, Must govern all that you shall intermix ;
Before you quest for Circumstances round, peg down, at first, ..."
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