Crossword clues for pegged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peg \Peg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pegged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pegging.]
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To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.
I will rend an oak And peg thee in his knotty entrails.
--Shak. (Cribbage) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastpeg)
WordNet
n. a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface [syn: nog]
small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. [syn: pin]
informal terms of the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks" [syn: pin, stick]
a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg [syn: wooden leg, leg, pegleg]
regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing [syn: pin, thole, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock]
v. succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" [syn: nail down, nail]
pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into into
fasten or secure with a wooden pin; "peg a tent" [syn: peg down]
stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar"
See peg
Usage examples of "pegged".
Will pegged as physically being able to visit those other realms, he had a hard time accepting their existence and his ability to travel to them.
The only things that pegged him as an aged retiree were his work-gnarled, leathery, slightly arthritic, somehow ancient hands .
Her sturdy body, which showed a lot more curves out of her blues, was decked out in a pair of pegged lavender pants, a snug purple top and a floaty sort of jacket that picked up both colors in thin stripes.
She pegged him at mid- to late twenties, probably a grad student, a shaky step up from geekdom, earning his tuition by manning the stick and chatting up the patrons.
Even Jess-F, whom Richard had pegged as the toughest zenvol he had yet met, broke out the metallised glass tumblers from a dispenser by the fountain, while Gewell and the sniffling Zootie sat at their ease at table.
And that creep on TV - Neese - threw the issue around, pegged her as Ms Slice-the-Fetus Radical Feminist.
The frame was sawn from sections of whale rib, pegged together and tied with sinews.
He had known Lo Manto for only a few days, but had him pegged well enough to know there was always some plan brewing with every action he took, even one as simple as a night at a ballpark.
Alice reached forth and pulled him in, then reclosed the queer little gate and pegged it.
Whatever the truth of the matter, the Ocean Switcher of that time made a decision and pegged the switching rail to favor the easterly car.
Karyn had her pegged correctly after all: a slightly askew twelve-year-old asimmer with prepubescent fantasies playing a not particularly nice joke on him.
Tom Sternberg, the diplopic ad actor, had Mark pegged as one of those painfully radiant types whose apparent blindness to their own radiance only makes the sting of the light meaner.
Perkins recognized this as Bureau negotiator standard operating procedure, though for Fagin it probably pegged Banish as a coward.
Four short-shafted arrows with tan fletching were pegged, headfirst, into the ground in front of her.
He kept the steering pipper on the target, which his electronics had pegged as the source of several different radar emissions.