peg
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- noun
- /pɛg/
- Specialized
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- To play the song correctly, he had to check the peg for the right string tension.
- tuning pegs
- turn the tuning pegs
- strings and pegs
Examples
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So what we've got is a peg with a washer on which fits into a groove.
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Like the guitar, the ukulele has tuning pegs, a nut, a neck or fingerboard, a sound hole, and a bridge.
Academic text (1992) -
So Phil reached over to the tuning peg and turned.
Blog text (7) -
It really does fit on this peg a certain way.
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But Ruby stopped and stood looking at an old trap hanging from a peg on the barn wall.
Fiction book (1997) -
Your fingers turn the tuning pegs: feeling, listening, comparing, anticipating.
Academic text (1998) -
He grabbed her instrument, adjusted the pegs, and played the piece.
Fiction book (1994) -
The musician adjusted the pitch by turning the peg on his guitar.
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She carefully tightened the peg to ensure her violin was in tune.
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
A children's game where players throw a small knife to make it stick in the ground
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word peg was used for a small 'pin' that you can turn or wedge in place. On instruments, a peg is that turning pin which tightens a string, so the musical meaning comes from the same simple 'pin' idea.