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puzzle-pegs

puzzle-pegs is the plural of puzzle-peg.

Meaning of puzzle-peg

Noun

puzzle-peg (plural puzzle-pegs)

  1. (obsolete) A piece of wood secured under a dog's jaw to keep the dog's nose away from the ground so that it uses the scent in the air to track its quarry, and to prevent the dog from tearing the quarry once found.
    Synonyms:
    puzzle

Questions about puzzle-pegs

What is puzzle-pegs the plural of?
Puzzle-pegs is the plural of puzzle-peg.

Words near puzzle-pegs in the dictionary

  1. puzzle-box
  2. puzzle-boxes
  3. puzzle-monkey
  4. puzzle-monkeys
  5. puzzle-peg
  6. puzzle-pegs
  7. puzzleation
  8. puzzleations
  9. puzzlebox
  10. puzzleboxes
  11. puzzled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puzzle-pegs (page history and authors); puzzle-peg (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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