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a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations; "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar" fasten or secure with a wooden pin; "peg a tent" pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into into informal terms of the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks" succeed in obtaining a position; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" |
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