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between the pegs

between the pegs prepositional phrase: designating the body length of a killed animal based on the distance between a peg placed near its nose and another near the end of its tail.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Designating the body length of a killed animal based on the distance between a peg placed near its nose and another near the end of its tail.

Questions about between the pegs

What does between the pegs mean?
Between the pegs means designating the body length of a killed animal based on the distance between a peg placed near its nose and another near the end of its tail.
What part of speech is between the pegs?
Between the pegs is a prepositional phrase.

Words near between the pegs in the dictionary

  1. between the devil and the deep blue sea
  2. between the ears
  3. between the hammer and the anvil
  4. between the jigs and the reels
  5. between the lines
  6. between the pegs
  7. between the pipes
  8. between the sheets
  9. between the sticks
  10. between time
  11. between times

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