"tent peg" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: tent pegs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} tent peg (plural tent pegs)
  1. A peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent. Synonyms: spike, stake Derived forms: tent pegging Translations (peg, to hold a rope that supports a tent): وَتَد اَلْخَيْمَة (watad al-ḵayma) (Arabic), stanový kolík [masculine] (Czech), tentharing [masculine] (Dutch), fosteto (Esperanto), vaarna (Finnish), sardine [feminine] (French), Erdnagel [masculine] (German), Hering [masculine] (German), Zelthering [masculine] (German), pionna pubaill [masculine] (Irish), テント杭 (tento-kui) (Japanese), śledź [masculine] (Polish), ко́лышек (kólyšek) [masculine] (Russian), stanový kolík [masculine] (Slovak), estaca [feminine] (Spanish), piqueta [feminine] (Spanish), tältpinne [common-gender] (Swedish), tältspik [common-gender] (Swedish), çadır mandalı (Turkish), hjēriḱ [masculine] (Vilamovian)
    Sense id: en-tent_peg-en-noun-zb6EPcC3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 96 4 Disambiguation of 'peg, to hold a rope that supports a tent': 100 0
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) An egg. Tags: Cockney, slang
    Sense id: en-tent_peg-en-noun-lRjns9c7

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "peg, to hold a rope that supports a tent",
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