peg

noun

• 1a short pin or bolt, typically tapered at one end, that is used for securing something in place, hanging things on, or marking a position:she put her mack on a peg in the hall
• (also tent peg) a pin or bolt driven into the ground to hold one of the ropes or corners of a tent in position.
• Britishshort for clothes peg.
• a bung for stoppering a cask.
• informal a footrest on a motorbike.

• 2a point or limit on a scale, especially of exchange rates: the Mexican peso, linked to the dollar by a crawling peg, was distinctly too high

• 3chiefly Indian a measure of spirits:have a peg of whisky

• 4a place marked by a peg and allotted to a competitor to fish or shoot from.

• 5 informal a person’s leg: I have a good right peg and the ball ended up in the back of the net

• 6chiefly Baseball a strong throw.

verb (pegs, pegging, pegged)

• 1 [with object and adverbial] fix, secure, or mark with a peg or pegs:drape plants with nets, pegging down the edges
• hang (washing) on a line with clothes pegs:clothes were pegged out on a line
• allot a specified place to (a competitor) in a fishing or shooting competition by means of a marker:we’ve been pegged next to the winning team

• 2 [with object] fix (a price, rate, or amount) at a particular level:the dividend was pegged at 23.59p
• informal, chiefly North American form a fixed opinion of; categorize:the officer probably has us pegged as anarchists

• 3chiefly Baseball throw (a ball) hard and low: the catcher pegs the ball to the first baseman