peg down
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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 Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell
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