vent-peg
[vent n.2]
A small peg for inserting in the vent-hole of a cask; a spile.
| 1707 Mortimer Husb. 573 Leaving your Vent-peg always open palls it [sc. March-beer]. Ibid. 574 If once you pull out the Vent-peg, to draw a Quantity at once. 1747–96 H. Glasse Cookery xxii. 349 Mind you have a vent-peg at the top of the vessel. 1830 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. I. 209 If on drawing out the vent-peg of the cask the liquor spurts up with force. 1844 Dickens Chimes iii, Pulling out the vent-peg of the table-beer. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech. 2703/2 The vent-peg [of the vent-cock] consists of a tubular, threaded stem, which may be screwed into a cask. |