pegging

The streets of the two camps were adjacent, and the Tommies walked out to watch the Yankees pegging down their tents.

Instinct compels her patient beak; ours—in all modesty we speak—is kept by Conscience (sternly chaste) pegging the literary waste.

Hobden answered with a quick movement of the hand as though he were pegging down a rabbit-wire.

Here we've been for a week pegging away at this Bill, bargaining and bickering.