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peg top
1noun
- a child's wooden top that spins on a metal peg.
- peg tops, peg-top trousers.
peg-top
2[ peg-top ]
adjective
- wide at the hips and narrowing to the ankle:
peg-top trousers; peg-top skirts.
peg top
1noun
- a child's spinning top, usually made of wood with a metal centre pin
peg-top
2adjective
- (of skirts, trousers, etc) wide at the hips then tapering off towards the ankle
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Word History and Origins
Origin of peg top1
First recorded in 1650–60
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Example Sentences
This bulge he shaped and smoothed very carefully with his knife, so that it was in the form of a peg-top.
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The child who was spinning a peg-top in the street was simply dressed in a short-skirted cotehardie.
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It spins to brave music, this peg-top, but its metier is to spin.
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Slowly at first and then with a rush she came about like a peg top.
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The men in peg-top trousers and silk stocks, the women in crinolines and poke bonnets.
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