pegging

"School begins next week, and three months of pegging before Christmas," groaned Aleck.

I wish you were on a job like this, instead of pegging away at your piano.

For, thanks to you and your pegging away, I wrote and asked little Mary once again if she would have me.

“I always feel so in the spring,” said Sandy, very gravely and with a little sigh, as he went pegging away down another furrow.

The sowar at tent-pegging has missed his peg and pulls at his horse at full gallop.