tent peg

English

Noun

tent peg (plural tent pegs)

1. A peg, driven into the ground, to hold a rope that supports a tent.

   Upon arrival at the campsite, they discovered that they had forgotten the tent pegs; they had to use rocks and logs to tether the tent instead.

Synonyms

• (peg driven into ground to support tent): spike, stake

Translations

peg, to hold a rope that supports a tent

• Dutch: tentharing (nl) m
• Finnish: vaarna (fi)
• German: Erdnagel m, Hering (de) m, Zelthering (de) m
• Irish: pionna pubaill m
• Polish: śledź (pl) m
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• Russian: ко́лышек (ru) m (kólyšek)
• Spanish: estaca (es) f, piqueta (es) f
• Turkish: çadır mandalı
• Vilamovian: hjēriḱ m