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pegs

/pɛɡz/ noun B2
  1. peg-top trousers (informal)
  2. The stumps. (slang)
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First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 2 · B2
He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 54 · B2
They constructed the new theater using traditional methods, assembling massive oak timbers with wooden pegs rather than modern steel bolts.
Resurrecting the Wooden O, p. 1 · C1

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