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pegtop

pegtop noun: a spinning top.

Noun

pegtop (plural pegtops)

  1. A spinning top.
    • How often have I seen him, intent upon a match at marbles or pegtop, looking on with a face of unutterable interest, and hardly breathing at the critical times!1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “Somebody Turns Up”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 179

pegtop meaning in Kannada

pegtop in Kannada

ಮೊಳೆತ ತಲೆಬುಗುರಿ, ಗೂಟದ ಬುಗುರಿ

Forms of pegtop

pluralpegtops
alternative formpeg-top

Origin of pegtop

From peg + top.

Questions about pegtop

What does pegtop mean?
Pegtop means a spinning top.
What is pegtop in Kannada?
Pegtop in Kannada is ಮೊಳೆತ ತಲೆಬುಗುರಿ, ಗೂಟದ ಬುಗುರಿ. See Pegtop meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is pegtop?
Pegtop is a noun.
What is the plural of pegtop?
The plural of pegtop is pegtops.

Words near pegtop in the dictionary

  1. pegs it
  2. pegs out
  3. pegs the needle
  4. pegsunercept
  5. Pegswood
  6. pegtop
  7. pegtops
  8. Pegu
  9. Pegu jar
  10. Pegu jars
  11. Peguan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pegtop (page history and authors); pegtop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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