We had one workshop for pegging boots and shoes in Wooster Street, where we soon got employment for numbers of street-boys; but a machine was suddenly invented for pegging shoes, which drove us out of the field.
There is a perennial agitation in the croquet world for a law prohibiting the player from pegging out his opponent's ball.
Peel, a famous advocate of the policy) is the term applied to the device of putting a partner's or an opponent's ball through the hoops with a view to ultimately pegging it out.
Pegging away with a rifle is no part of your business.
I had never seen tent-pegging at that time, but I did this from description, by an Anglo-Indian officer of the 10th, who put the thing vividly before me.
One year it was a big tent-pegging picture (I don't know where its purchaser is now), which was well lighted at Burlington House.
I know I am only half living tucked up here pegging away, and that I ought to shake myself loose and go out into the world more and see what it is made of.
He was perpetually pegging at the floor the moment she left his sight.
Only, when you are pegging away at reforming and enlightening the world, don't trample too much on the people who have more than enough to do to enlighten themselves.
Besides the Sunday lectures, Elsmere is pegging away on Saturday evenings at "The History of the Moral Life in Man.
We must have a General Election in a year or two; meanwhile I shall keep on pegging away.
The man who keeps pegging away, and never gives up, has always reason to be certain.
Dunstan, to check the vicious habit of excessive indulgence in intoxicating liquors, introduced the custom of marking or pegging drinking-cups at certain places, to restrain the draught to a limited quantity.
To encourage friendly intercourse, they used to practise tent-pegging and lime-cutting, and invited the Afghan horsemen to join them.
Hang it, I don't know but we'd be better off if we were pegging away for a foothold somewhere, like old Jake.
He's stillpegging away with the mule 'und Gretchen, der cow.
Hawks may be trapped by first capturing their young, and pegging one or more to the ground, and surrounding it or them by concealed traps.
But as she was pegging out some towels in the yard she heard a discreet cough on the other side of the fence.
Lincoln, being asked by an anxious visitor what he would do after three or four years if the rebellion was not subdued, replied: "Oh, there is no alternative but to keeppegging away.
They who understand and practice Abraham Lincoln's homely maxim of 'pegging away' have achieved the solidest success.
Skins are prepared for making cloaks by pegging them tight out upon the ground soon after they are taken off the animal, when dry, cold ashes or dust are thrown in, to absorb any grease that may have exuded.
Root end of a kind of grass, used as pins for pegging out skins.
A cankerworm pegging away at your vitals in secret, as well as I make it out?
I have identified the cankerworm that's pegging away at your vitals, and it's envy, Thomas.
But the fellow had kept pegging away; and once Jimmie had been laid off for a couple of months, and the family had near starved, and that had given him time to think, and also the inclination.
Whatever happened, he would keeppegging away at the task of freeing labour.
Therefore what this Gentleman says of trying Drink by first Pegging it before it is Tapp'd, in my Opinion is more just and right than relying on a limited time for Broaching such Beer.
But to be truly certain of the right Time, there should be first an Examination made by Pegging the Vessel to prove if such Drink is fine, the Hop sufficiently rotted, and it be mellow and well tasted.
The next day's programme included the spectacle of tent-pegging and polo-playing between rival regiments; the reception of an LL.
On December 21st the Prince witnessed a tent-pegging exhibition by the 10th Bengal Cavalry, made a round of the hospitals and asylums, and wound up with a garden party at Belvidere and a dinner and grand ball at Government House.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pegging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grinding; hardworking; plodding; plugging; straining; striving; struggling; sweating; working
