peg
A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
Other meanings
A protrusion used to hang things on.
“Hang your coat on the peg and come in.”
A support; a reason; a pretext.
“a peg to hang a claim upon”
Related words
- clothespeg
- hatpeg
- pail
- pegboard
- pegbox
- peghead
- peglet
- pegroots
- shoepeg
- between the pegs
- clothes peg
- tent peg
Word history
From Middle Dutch "pegge" (pin, peg).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “peg” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.