peg
/ˈpɛɡ/ nom B2En français : cheville, porte-manteau, patère
- A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
- A protrusion used to hang things on. · Hang your coat on the peg and come in.
- A support; a reason; a pretext. · a peg to hang a claim upon
- A peg moved on a crib board to keep score.
- A fixed exchange rate, where a currency's value is matched to the value of another currency or measure such as gold.
- A place formally allotted for fishing
- A leg or foot.
- One of the pins of a musical instrument, on which the strings are strained.
Pluriel pegs
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
“What a providential thing that this young man should press his right thumb against the wall in taking his hat from the peg!
Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed.
He fastened it together with wooden pegs and made the four wheels out of short pieces of a big tree trunk.
Taking a big golden key from a peg on the wall, he opened another gate, and they all followed him through the portal into the streets of the Emerald City.
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