| high noon | | |
| n. (time) | 1. high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon | the middle of the day. |
| ~ 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" |
| ~ time of day, hour | clock time.; "the hour is getting late" |
| peg | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. nog, peg | a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface. |
| ~ pin | a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things. |
| ~ golf tee, tee | a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground. |
| ~ tent peg | a peg driven into the ground to hold a rope supporting a tent. |
| ~ treenail, trenail, trunnel | a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast. |
| n. (communication) | 2. peg, pin | small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc.. |
| ~ marking, mark, marker | a distinguishing symbol.; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep" |
| n. (body) | 3. peg, pin, stick | informal terms for the leg.; "fever left him weak on his sticks" |
| ~ leg | a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. leg, peg, pegleg, wooden leg | a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg. |
| ~ prosthesis, prosthetic device | corrective consisting of a replacement for a part of the body. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. peg | regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument. |
| ~ regulator | any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.. |
| ~ stringed instrument | a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. oarlock, peg, pin, rowlock, thole, tholepin | a holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing. |
| ~ dinghy, dory, rowboat | a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled. |
| ~ holder | a holding device.; "a towel holder"; "a cigarette holder"; "an umbrella holder" |
| v. (social) | 7. nail, nail down, peg | succeed in obtaining a position.; "He nailed down a spot at Harvard" |
| ~ bring home the bacon, deliver the goods, succeed, come through, win | attain success or reach a desired goal.; "The enterprise succeeded"; "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show"; "she struggled to overcome her handicap and won" |
| v. (contact) | 8. peg | pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into. |
| ~ pierce, thrust | penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument. |
| v. (contact) | 9. peg, peg down | fasten or secure with a wooden pin.; "peg a tent" |
| ~ attach | cause to be attached. |
| v. (change) | 10. peg | stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations.; "The weak currency was pegged to the US Dollar" |
| ~ stabilize, stabilise | make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium.; "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices" |
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