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Peg [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small pointed piece of wood used in fastening boards or other work of wood, etc. It does the office of a nail. The word is applied only to small pieces of wood pointed; to the larger pieces thus pointed we give the name of pins, and pins in ship carpentry are called tree-nails or trenails. Coxe, in his travels in Russia, speaks of poles or beams fastened into the ground with pegs.

2. The pins of an instrument on which the strings are strained.

3. A nickname for Margaret.

4. To take a peg lower, to depress; to lower.

Peg [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To fasten with pegs.

Peg [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

2. A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon.

3. One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.

4. One of the pins used for marking points on a cribbage board.

5. A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg."

Peg [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To work diligently, as one who pegs shoes; -- usually with on, at, or away; as, to peg away at a task.

Peg [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To put pegs into; to fasten the parts of with pegs; as, to peg shoes; to confine with pegs; to restrict or limit closely.

2. To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points.

Pegador [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A species of remora (Echeneis naucrates). See Remora.

Pegasean [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to Pegasus, or, figuratively, to poetry.

Pegasoid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Like or pertaining to Pegasus.

Pegasus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.

2. A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.

3. A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.

Pegasus Encyclopedia Britannica

PEGASUS, a famous horse of Greek fable, was said to have sprung from the trunk of the Gorgon Medusa when her head was cut off by Perseus. Bellerophon caught him as he drank of the spring Peirene on the Acrocorinthus at Corinth, or (according to another version) received him tamed and bridled at the hands of Athene. Mounted on Pegasus, Bellerophon slew the Chimaera and overcame the Solymi and the Amazons, but when he tried to fly to heaven on his back the horse threw him and continued his heavenward course. Arrived in heaven, Pegasus served Zeus, fetching for him his thunder and lightning. Hence some have thought that Pegasus is a symbol of the thundercloud. In later legend he is the horse of Eos, the Morning. Pindar and later poets represent him as winged. The name is from πηγός, “compact,” “stout.” The erroneous derivation from πηyη, “a spring of water,” may have given birth to the legends which connect Pegasus with water, as that his father was Poseidon, that he was born at the springs of Ocean (like the fabulous Indian horse Uccaihs-ravas, prototype of horses, produced at the churning of Ocean), and that he had the power of making springs gush from the ground by a blow of his hoof. This was said to have been the origin of Hippocrene (Horse-spring), the fountain of the Muses on Mount Helicon, as well as of another spring of the same name at Traezen. But there are facts that speak for an independent mythological connexion between horses and water, e.g., the sacredness of the horse to Poseidon, the epithets Hippios and Equester applied to Poseidon and Neptune, the Greek fable of the origin of the first horse (produced by Poseidon striking the ground with his trident), and the custom in Argolis of sacrificing horses to Poseidon by drowning them in a ...

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 18, p. 468
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Pegged [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pegger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that fastens with pegs.

Pegger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who fastens with pegs.

Pegging [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act or process of fastening with pegs.

Pegging [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Peg

Pegm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

pem. [Gr.] A sort of moving machine in the old pageants.

Pegm [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A sort of moving machine employed in the old pageants.

Pegmatite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Primitive granitic rock, composed essentially of lamellar feldspar and quartz; frequently with a mixture of mica. In it are found kaolin, tin tourmaline, beryl, aqua marina, tantale, scheelin and other valuable minerals.

Pegmatite [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Graphic granite. See under Granite.

2. More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks.

Pegmatitic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite.

Pegomancy [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Divination by fountains.

Pegroots [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Setterwort.

Pegtatoid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Resembling pegmatite; pegmatic.

Pegu Encyclopedia Britannica

PEGU, a division of British Burmah, comprising the districts of Rangoon, Hanthawaddy, Tharawadi, and Prome, has an area of 9159 square miles, with a population (in 1881) of 1,162,393. The province of Pegu was annexed by the British after the second Burmese war in 1852-53.

Pegu, an ancient town in the Rangoon district of British Burmah, is situated on the Pegu river, 20 miles west of the Tsit-toung, in 17° 20' N. lat. and 96° 30' E. long. It was founded in 573 a.d., and was for a long time the capital of the Talaing kingdom, overthrown by Aloung-bhura in the middle of the 18th century. Early European travellers describe the city as of great size, strength, and magnificence. Modern Pegu lies close to the river-side, and had a population in 1881 of 5891.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 18, p. 468
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Exodus 27:19

All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

All the utensils of the tabernacle for every use, including all its tent pegs and the tent pegs of the courtyard, shall be made of bronze.

Exodus 35:18

The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,

the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard, along with their ropes;

Exodus 38:20

And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard were bronze.

Exodus 38:31

And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

the bases for the surrounding courtyard and its gate, and all the tent pegs for the tabernacle and its surrounding courtyard.

Exodus 39:40

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases; the curtain for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;

Numbers 3:37

And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.

Numbers 4:32

And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.

and the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.

Judges 4:21

Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.

Judges 4:22

And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.

Judges 5:26

She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.

Isaiah 22:23

And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.

I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

Isaiah 22:25

In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

Isaiah 33:20

Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

Look upon Zion, the city of our appointed feasts. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a peaceful pasture, a tent that does not wander; its tent pegs will not be pulled up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

Ezekiel 15:3

Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?

Zechariah 10:4

Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him the battle bow, out of him every oppressor together.

The cornerstone will come from Judah, the tent peg from him, as well as the battle bow and every ruler together.