The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pegger \Peg"ger\, n. One who fastens with pegs.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who pegs (in any sense) 2 A person who, or machine that, attached the uppers to the soles of shoes using wooden pegs
Usage examples of "pegger".
On this hot July afternoon Pegger paused in his digging to mop his forehead with a red bandana handkerchief and regarded me in the stern way he regarded everybody.
Mr Pegger raised his eyes to the sky as though he thought I might have invited the wrath of God to descend on me.
On the next grave lay another red bandana handkerchief similar to that with which Mr Pegger had mopped his brow, but this one, I knew, was tied about a bottle containing cold tea and a pasty which Mrs Pegger would have made on the previous night so that it would be ready for her husband to bring with him.
Mr Pegger brushed the pasty crumbs from his coat and tied the bottle back into the red handkerchief.
I dug the spade into the earth and threw out what it had picked up as I had seen Mr Pegger do.
Mr Pegger took up his spade and continued to dig while I tried to wipe the earth from my shoes and noticed with dismay that the hem of my skirt was decidedly grubby.
I talked for a while with Mr Pegger, then I went back to the rectory carrying the piece of what appeared to be bronze with me.
And so the rectory blinds were drawn down and the day came when bells tolled and we lowered the Reverend James Osmond into the grave which Mr Pegger had dug for him and then we went back to the rectory to eat cold ham and mourn.
July afternoon Pegger paused in his digging to mop his forehead with a red bandanna handkerchief and regarded me in the stern way he regarded everybody.
I wished that I could forget the Cassandra-like faces of Dorcas and Alison, the hints and innuendos, the fanatical eyes of old Pegger in the porch.
A revolutionary machine, the McKay pegger, made it possible for factory owners to replace skilled help with greenhorns.
Magrath he's my pegger, he is, for bricking up all my old kent road.
But a new complexion was put upon the matter when to the perplexedly uncondemnatory bench (whereon punic judgeship strove with penal law) the senior king of all, Pegger Festy, as soon as the outer layer of stucckomuck had been removed at the request of a few live jurors, declared in a loudburst of poesy, through his Brythonic interpreter on his oath, mhuith peisth mhuise as fearra bheura muirre hriosmas, whereas take notice be the relics of the bones of the story bouchal that was ate be Cliopatrick (the sow) princess of parked porkers, afore God and all their honours and king's commons that .