Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of top, commonly of solid wood with a metal peg, which is spun by the rapid uncoiling of a string wound round it.
- noun plural A kind of trousers very wide at the top, and gradually narrowing till they become tight at the ankles: so called from their resemblance when on the person to the toy so named.
- Shaped like a child's top.
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Examples
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It was his joy to recall, for all who came, the days of the bicycle built for two, the peg-top trousers and brown derbies of the men, and of the bustles, flounces and puffed sleeves of the women.
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‘John has lately been speculating in the peg-top ring; and I often say to him at night, “John, IS the result worth the wear and tear?”’
A Holiday Romance 2007
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‘John has lately been speculating in the peg-top ring; and I often say to him at night, “John, IS the result worth the wear and tear?”’
A Holiday Romance 2007
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This was too large for their little hands to grasp, and by means of some grievance inside, or perhaps through a cruel trick of the plumber, up went the long handle every time small fingers were too confiding, and there it stood up like the tail of a rampant cow, or a branch inaccessible, until an old shawl or the cord of a peg-top could be cast up on high to reduce it.
Erema Richard Doddridge 2004
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R. Wilfer locked up his desk one evening, and, putting his bunch of keys in his pocket much as if it were his peg-top, made for home.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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A young man in peg-top trousers and side whiskers carrying a spiked stick appeared by the lake.
Between the Acts 2004
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“Kirra-kul” (EUPOMATIA LAURINA), which resembles an obtuse peg-top, and is spun from the peg.
My Tropic Isle 2003
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They had bought flaring suits with huge peg-top trousers and gigantic padded shoulders.
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Mayakin spoke fast, whirling like a peg-top amid the crowd of people.
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An old-fashioned nearly, crinolines and peg-top trousers.
To the Lighthouse 2002
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