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Definition of Tent peg
1. Noun. A peg driven into the ground to hold a rope supporting a tent.
Definition of Tent peg
1. Noun. A peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tent Peg
Literary usage of Tent peg
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Land Magnetic Observations: 1905/10- by Louis Agricola Bauer, John Adam Fleming, Harlan Wilbur Fisk, Samuel Jackson Barnett, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1912)
"The station is in line with east wall of pool, and 11.5 meters north of eastern
wall; marked by tent peg driven flush with ground and covered with earth. ..."
2. Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks, and Grayling Fishing in Northern by Ansel Judd Northrup (1880)
"A loosely fixed tent-peg at the opening had been drawn, the strings holding the
curtains had snapped like threads, and the curtains themselves ..."
3. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "the (1879)
"Premising that a tent- peg ought to be parallel for the part under the ground,
and pointed, if necessary, in hard ground, and that I have also six months' ..."
4. Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah by Franz Delitzsch, Samuel Rolles Driver (1892)
"ISAIAH. the driving in of a tent-peg was all the more readily available that ...
4), who stand in the same relation to the community as a tent-peg to the ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"8. tent-pegging (tent'peg'ing), и. An equestrian game or exercise common ...
a tent-peg which has been firmly fixed in the ground. tent-peg (tent'peg), и. ..."
6. Scripture manners and customs by Mary Fawler Maude (1862)
"23 :—" I will fasten him as a nail (rather as a tent-peg) in a sure place;" and
Ezra in ix. 8 :—" And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the ..."
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