1
- a small wooden peg or spigot for stopping a cask（桶的）小木塞; 木龙头。
1.1
- N. Amer. a small wooden or metal spout for tapping the sap from a sugar maple〈北美〉（采糖槭树液用的）小插管。
2
- a large, heavy timber driven into the ground to support a superstructure木桩; 支柱。
with obj.
- chiefly US or dialect broach (a cask) with a peg in order to draw off liquid〈主美或方〉开（桶）放出液体。
词源
early 16th cent.: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, 'wooden peg'; in sense 2 apparently an alteration of PILE2.