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Pegging :: Pegging (n.) The act or process of fastening with pegs.

Prickwood :: Prickwood (n.) A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree..

Scapegallows :: Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.

Micropegmatite :: Micropegmatite (n.) A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).

Scapegoat :: Scapegoat (n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others..

Pegged :: Pegged (imp. & p. p.) of Pe.

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

Harmine :: Harmine (n.) An alkaloid accompanying harmaline (in the Peganum harmala), and obtained from it by oxidation. It is a white crystalline substance..

Peg :: Peg (n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase To take one down peg..

Scalawag :: Scalawag (n.) A scamp; a scapegrace.

Spigot :: Spigot (n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock..

Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) More generally, a coarse granite occurring as vein material in other rocks..

Spilikin :: Spilikin (n.) One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins.

Pegmatite :: Pegmatite (n.) Graphic granite. See under Granite.

Pegmatitic :: Pegmatitic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pegmatite; as, the pegmatic structure of certain rocks resembling graphic granite..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

Raddle :: Raddle (n.) An instrument consisting of a wooden bar, with a row of upright pegs set in it, used by domestic weavers to keep the warp of a proper width, and prevent tangling when it is wound upon the beam of the loom..

Pegging :: Pegging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pe.

Bibliopegistic :: Bibliopegistic (a.) Pertaining to the art of binding books.

Unpeg :: Unpeg (v. t.) To remove a peg or pegs from; to unfasten; to open.

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