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Accordingly, when strong computational predictions seem not to be borne out by experiment, the conditions and design of the experiments deserve special scrutiny: they might have given a negative result for a wrong reason.
What has happened, evidently, is that peg acquired the sense of step, measure, degree hence take (someone) down a peg meant reduce (someone) by a measurable amount, and this is borne out by the OED at peg, sb . 1 3, (with variants) which has citations going back to 1589.
Hanks and Hodges include Hrothgar , for instance, because it occurs in Beowulf and was borne by a vice-chancellor of Oxford University at the turn of the century.
It must be said—and I believe I shall be borne out on this—that relying on citations appearing in the OED or in works written long ago is a precarious business: the only accurate, safe statement that can be made about such information is that it provides evidence for the existence of a word in a given context at the time of publication of the work: it cannot and must not be construed as the first time the word appeared on the face of the earth, merely as the first written evidence we have of its appearance.
26 Although these losses were borne throughout the entire channel to some extent, a disproportionate share, 65 percent, fell on retailers.