peg-top

[ peg-top ]

/ ˈpɛgˌtɒp /

wide at the hips and narrowing to the ankle: peg-top trousers; peg-top skirts.

Origin of peg-top

1860–65; adjective use of peg top (in the sense “a child's toy that spins on a peg”)

peg top

a child's wooden top that spins on a metal peg.

peg tops, peg-top trousers.

First recorded in 1650–60

Oh, if there could be a delightful thing, it would be to live as a hermit in the hut at the other side of Peg-Top Moor!

Polly |L. T. Meade
Cut a little man 367 out of a thin bit of wood, making him end in one leg, like a peg-top, instead of in two.

The Art of Entertaining |M. E. W. Sherwood
Looking at the figure of the peg-top (Fig. 101) we may ask the question, Why does it not fall down?

The Story of the Heavens |Robert Stawell Ball
The adjoining figure (Fig. 101) gives a view of the peg-top.

The Story of the Heavens |Robert Stawell Ball

That leather-skinned cranky old terrier over there reported Tim, and the 'bloke' with the peg-top whiskers reported Larry.

Six Years in the Prisons of England |A Merchant - Anonymous

peg-top

(of skirts, trousers, etc) wide at the hips then tapering off towards the ankle

peg top

a child's spinning top, usually made of wood with a metal centre pin