clothes-peg

American  

[klohz-peg, klohthz-] / ˈkloʊzˌpɛg, ˈkloʊðz- /

noun

British.

1. a clothespin.

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clothes peg British  

noun

1. a small wooden or plastic clip for attaching washing to a clothesline

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Etymology

Origin of clothes-peg

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

At the same time he was slyly working a clothes-peg into the hay, which he intended to find in a moment after, and then go on joking again.

From Harper's Young People, July 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Ellen herself opened the door to him, her skirts pinned up around her, and a clothes-peg in her mouth.

From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

Dear Diana after hounds a riding Like—a clothes-peg on a clothes-line?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 by Various

He was a great fat, black-and-white brute, with a head like a hat-box, a tail like a clothes-peg, and a back as broad as a well-fed sheep's.

From Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Surtees, Robert Smith

Stone-peg: A roughly cylindrical block of stone bonded into the walls of a house and projecting 10 or 12 inches on the inside so as to permit of its being used as a clothes-peg.

From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram