pegging

/ (ˈpɛɡɪŋ) /

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Words nearby pegging

pegbox, peg climbing, peg down, pegged, pegged tooth, pegging, Peggy, peg leg, Pegler, pegmatite, peg out

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How to use pegging in a sentence

"School begins next week, and three months of pegging before Christmas," groaned Aleck.
The Story of the Big Front Door|Mary Finley Leonard
I wish you were on a job like this, instead of pegging away at your piano.
Jane Journeys On|Ruth Comfort Mitchell
For, thanks to you and your pegging away, I wrote and asked little Mary once again if she would have me.
A Sheaf of Corn|Mary E. Mann
“I always feel so in the spring,” said Sandy, very gravely and with a little sigh, as he went pegging away down another furrow.
The Boy Settlers|Noah Brooks

The sowar at tent-pegging has missed his peg and pulls at his horse at full gallop.
An Autobiography|Elizabeth Butler

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