vent-peg

The ale will be ready in three or four months, and if the vent-peg be never removed, it will have spirit and strength to the last.

A Poetical Cook-Book Maria J. Moss

"Oh! he went wrong, did he?" said the gentleman, pulling out the vent-peg of the table-beer, and trying to peep down into the barrel through the hole.

A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1892

While he was making these observations, the boy finished his boring operation and having inserted a vent-peg in the hole, walked off.

The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado Chase [Illustrator] Emerson 1887

As soon as he was out of sight, Tom stepped up to the barrel, pulled out the vent-peg, dropped it into his pocket, and having done so, sauntered leisurely up the store again and went out.

The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado Chase [Illustrator] Emerson 1887

I might have gone on all day that way, very likely, if I had not been aroused suddenly by feeling a big drop of rain on my face; and only a moment later -- the thick mist, I suppose, being surcharged with water, and some little waft of wind in its upper region having loosened its vent-peg -- I was in the thick of a dashing shower.

In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

He set down his light on the top of it, removed what seemed a large vent-peg, and poured into the cask a quantity of something from the flagon.

The Princess and Curdie George MacDonald 1864

Last of all, he filled the flagon from the cask he had first visited, replaced then the vent-peg, took up his candle, and turned toward the door.

The Princess and Curdie George MacDonald 1864

Then once more corking with the rag, I proceeded to carry out my original design, of making a proper vent-peg of wood.

The Boy Tar Mayne Reid 1850

It was the fore-finger of my left that was playing vent-peg; and I dared not remove it, else the water would have gushed forth in a tolerably thick, and therefore a wasteful, jet.

The Boy Tar Mayne Reid 1850

Had I done so, in all probability I should have left out the vent-peg, and then a large quantity of water would have been spilled.

The Boy Tar Mayne Reid 1850