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peg down

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verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to make (a person) committed to a course of action or bound to follow rules

    you won't peg him down to any decision

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Or you could plant biomats that peg down to the soil and are pre-seeded with stabilizing plants.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2022

He has both the advantage and disadvantage of being a libertarian, which makes him hard to peg down on a traditional left-right spectrum.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2015

In seven days, they sieved 81,881 workers through a series of questions designed to peg down their postwar plans, the first such big worker-by-worker poll in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thereby Capitol was able to boost record production again, peg down its position as the No. 4 U.S. record company.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over these arches spread your canvas to form a kind of tunnel tent, and peg down the loops to the ground.

From Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

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