Tra từ peg - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

peg [peg pegs pegged pegging] noun, verb BrE [peɡ] NAmE [peɡ]
noun

1. a short piece of wood, metal or plastic used for holding things together, hanging things on, marking a position, etc
•There's a peg near the door to hang your coat on.
•Mark the boundary with pegs.
2. (also ˈtent peg)a small pointed piece of wood or metal that you attach to the ropes of a tent and push into the ground in order to hold the tent in place
3. (also ˈclothes peg) (both BrE) (NAmE clothes·pin)a piece of wood or plastic used for attaching wet clothes to a clothes line
4. (also ˈtuning peg)a wooden, metal or plastic screw used for making the strings of a musical instrument tighter or looser
more at a square peg (in a round hole) at ↑square _adj.

Word Origin:
late Middle English: probably of Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect peg ‘plug, peg’. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent.

Example Bank:
•The score is kept by inserting pegs into a board.
Idioms: ↑off the peg ▪ ↑peg to hang something on ▪ ↑take somebody down a peg
Derived: ↑peg away ▪ ↑peg out ▪ ↑peg somebody back

verb (-gg-)
1. to fasten sth with ↑pegs
•~ sth (out) + adv./prep. All their wet clothes were pegged out on the line.
•~ sth to sth She was busy pegging her tent to the ground.
2. usually passive to fix or keep prices, wages, etc. at a particular level
•~ sth (at sth) Pay increases will be pegged at 5%.
•~ sth (to sth) Loan repayments are pegged to your income.
•to peg the exchange rate to the dollar
•Admission prices have been pegged.
3. ~ sb as sth (NAmE, informal)to think of sb in a particular way
•She pegged him as a big spender.
see be level pegging at ↑level _adj.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late Middle English: probably of Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect peg ‘plug, peg’. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent.

See also: ↑clothes peg ▪ ↑clothespin ▪ ↑off the rack ▪ ↑tent peg ▪ ↑tuning peg