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English

1. 🔊 a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
2. 🔊 a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing
3. 🔊 regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument
4. 🔊 a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
5. 🔊 small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.
6. 🔊 informal terms for the leg
   “fever left him weak on his sticks”
7. 🔊 stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations
   “The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar”
8. 🔊 fasten or secure with a wooden pin
   “peg a tent”
9. 🔊 pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into
10. 🔊 succeed in obtaining a position
    “He nailed down a spot at Harvard”

Spanish

1. 🔊 chaveta peg
2. 🔊 clavija peg
3. 🔊 tarugo peg
4. 🔊 piqueta peg, tent peg (peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent)

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