peg
noun
a pin of wood or other material driven or fitted into something, as to fasten parts together, to hang things on, to make fast a rope or string on, to stop a hole, or to mark some point.
had been pegging
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past perfect progressiveof peg.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The expression is perhaps a little unfortunate; it sounds as if they had been pegging out.
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 23, 1914 by Various
He stopped the gramophone, which had been pegging away patiently at “The Quaint Old Bird” all the time, and reflected.
From Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
However, I at last concluded a book,—if I may so call what never resulted in a volume,—at which, from the first, I had been pegging away.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
For days I had been pegging away at a task which refused to get itself accomplished.
From Optimism An Essay by Helen Keller
