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Definition of Pegged-down
1. Adjective. Fastened by pegs. "The pegged-down branches of the plant will take root"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pegged-down
Literary usage of Pegged-down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1853)
"... pegged down. The three purple beds are VOL. I. sown with Campanula Lorei, and
the four green beds with mignonette, the nearest approach to green we have ..."
2. Pictorial Practical Rose Growing: A Concise Guide Describing the Propagation by Walter Page Wright (1902)
"C, a developed pegged-down Rose showing the flowered and succes- D, a pruned,
... shortened an 1 pegged down; j, two years old branches spur pruned and ..."
3. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1852)
"These branches have to be bent downwards, so that a portion may be pegged down
from one to two inches below the surface. Let this be done in autumn ..."
4. Annals of Horticulture (1850)
"Any branch so pegged down will in time send forth roots, ... The layers must be
pegged down all round the plant, which is called a stool, and in one year ..."
5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Tasteby Luther Tucker by Luther Tucker (1851)
"In a general way, I should say, the strong sorts, if to be pegged down, should
be two feet apart each way; and if grown as dwarf bushes, from two feet and a ..."
6. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1892)
"The signal is acknowledged, the white key pegged down by the signal-man at Edgware
Road, who thus takes possession of the line up to Baker Street . ..."
7. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1868)
"Perhaps the cause of the pegged-down system not being more general, ... wood only
is each year pegged down, all the old blooming shoots being cut away. ..."
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