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pegheads

pegheads is the plural of peghead.

Meaning of peghead

Noun

peghead (plural pegheads)

  1. The part of a stringed instrument, at the end of the neck, that holds the pegs or mechanical tuners used to control string tension.
    • Common throughout the Arab and Persian world, the oud is a fretless short-neck lute with a pear-shaped, flat top, rounded back, and a peghead characteristically bent backwards at a very sharp angle.2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, page 22
    Synonyms:
    tuning head

Questions about pegheads

What is pegheads the plural of?
Pegheads is the plural of peghead.

Words near pegheads in the dictionary

  1. Peggs
  2. Peggs Green
  3. peggy
  4. Peggys
  5. peghead
  6. pegheads
  7. PEGI
  8. peginesatide
  9. peginterferon
  10. peginterferons
  11. pegivirus

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