Meaning & use
pegs
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Short pins or bolts, typically of wood or metal, used to fasten, hang, or mark something.
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He hung his coat on one of the wooden pegs by the door.
The campers hammered tent pegs into the ground before the storm hit.
A note on using this word
The phrase "take someone down a peg" traces back to naval tradition, where a ship's flag height was adjusted by pegs to signal rank.
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pinshooks
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Another way to use it
2. verb
Fixes prices, wages, or values at a set level relative to something else.
The country pegs its currency to the US dollar.
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