How do you use the word "peg" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "peg" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "peg": It is difficult to peg the direction of interest deregulation. He might, however, have seen a wooden peg of a different size or color.

Peg Meaning

/ˈpɛɡ/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.

nounA protrusion used to hang things on.

Sentence Examples

It is difficult to peg the direction of interest deregulation.

He might, however, have seen a wooden peg of a different size or color.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

pin nail stick

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

He hung his wet coat on the wooden ____ near the door.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She used a wooden ____ to hang the wet laundry on the line in the garden.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English pegge, from Middle Dutch pegge (“pin, peg”), from Old Dutch *pigg-, *pegg-, from Proto-Germanic *pig-, *pag- (“peg, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“club, pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Dutch dialectal peg (“pin”), Low German pig, pigge (“peg, stick with a point”), Low German pegel (“post, stake”), Swedish pigg (“tooth, spike”), Danish pig (“spike”), Norwegian Bokmål pigg (“spike”), Irish bac (“stick, crook”), Latin baculum (“staff”), Latvian bakstît (“to poke”), Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron, “staff, walking stick”). Related to beak. This is one of the very few English words that begin with a p and come from Proto-Germanic. Proto-Germanic *p, when not in a consonant cluster beginning with *s, developed by Grimm's law from the Proto-Indo-European consonant *b, which was very rare. (To indicate or ascribe an attribute to): Assumed to originate from the use of pegs or pins as markers on a bulletin board or a list.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The following became obvious quite quickly – the cryptosphere needed a nonvolatile peg." — 2022, Simon Dingle, Steven Boykey Sidley, chapter 7, in Beyond Bitcoin, Icon Books, →ISBN:

"This over, the club will be visited for a "peg," Anglice drink." — 1898, unknown author, Harper's Magazine:

"The name had come to mean any aromatic essence of herbs by the time the first thirsty colonial poured a peg of Who-shot-John into his mint water." — 1953, S. S. Field, The American drink book, page 65:

""Now I'm cleaned up for thee: tha's no 'casions ter stir a peg all day, but sit and read thy books."" — 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

"O, you are well tuned now! / But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, / As honest as I am." — c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

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