tent peg

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   a peg driven into the ground to hold a rope supporting a tent

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Questions about tent peg

What does tent peg mean?

tent peg means "a peg driven into the ground to hold a rope supporting a tent".

Is tent peg a common word?

tent peg is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.