New close-ups game

[Greebe]

My thought exactly Goc

[agallag]

Nice one. It's the back end of a Mini Maglite.

[az]

Originally posted by gt40



YESSIR!

Plastic wall anchor.

Damn! Babelfish said a "Dübel" is a "peg".. should have known better than to trust that site (BTW, what is a peg then?)

AZ

[KvHagedorn]

a peg is a round piece of wood used to hold furniture together

[az]

Ah thank you

Should've asked my big Pons dictionary before trying babelfish - but i'm so lazy...

AZ

[Brian Ellis]

az

aka as a wall plug (possibly after the trade mark Rawlplug, which was the original marque in the UK, made with aligned wood fibres moulded with a phenolic (?) resin).

peg // n.
1 a a usu. cylindrical pin or bolt of wood, metal, etc., often tapered at one end, and used for holding esp. two things together. b such a peg attached to a wall etc. and used for hanging garments etc. on. c a peg driven into the ground and attached to a rope for holding up a tent. d a bung for stoppering a cask etc. e each of several pegs used to tighten or loosen the strings of a violin etc. f a small peg, matchstick, etc. stuck into holes in a board for calculating the scores at cribbage.
2 Brit. = clothes-peg.
3 Brit. a measure of spirits or wine.
4 a place allotted to a competitor to fish etc. from (usu. marked by a numbered peg).

Oxford dixit!

[Fat Tone]

As we are being precise (or accurate ), when used for furniture joints, its normally called a dowel.

Incidentally, I've never heard of it as a measure or spirits or wine!

[az]

Thank you Brian for the precise and accurate answer, and Tony for the follow-up

My problem was that in german the word "Dübel" is used for both wood pegs ("dowels") and wall anchors.

My big pons dictionary gives dowel or plug as the translation for Dübel. Peg is "Pflock", among about 20 other meanings

AZ

[KvHagedorn]

There are idiomatic implications too. In Britain, dowel might be the proper term for the piece of wood holding furniture together, but in the U.S. we use peg.

[az]

I guess you pegged that right on the head then

Thanks everyone for helping a grammar nut learn something new, and I guess we should get back to the original topic of the thread now

AZ

[Fat Tone]

KvH - I learnt all my (post-school) woodworking from Norm Abrham - New Yankee Workshop, and he calls is dowel

[KvHagedorn]

Well, your English really doesn't seem to be deficient at all. Sometimes it's surprising to see such holes in knowledge.

On the other hand, my German is way too rusty to even attempt to use it now, and it's easy to be lazy when you don't have to use a language all the time.

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by Tony Andrews
KvH - I learnt all my (post-school) woodworking from Norm Abrham - New Yankee Workshop, and he calls is dowel

Really? Perhaps it's just a New England idiom then.

[KvHagedorn]

Actually, what I call a dowel is the long piece of wood before it is stuck into the furniture and sawed off to make a peg.

[Fat Tone]

LOL - I can't argue with that!