peg out

British  

verb

1. informal (intr) to collapse or die

2. croquet

   1. (intr) to win a game by hitting the peg

   2. (tr) to cause (an opponent's ball) to hit the peg, rendering it out of the game

3. (intr) cribbage to score the point that wins the game

4. (tr) to mark or secure with pegs

   to peg out one's claims to a piece of land

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peg out

By which he means that the history of people who like to peg out under the stars is studded with left-wingers, protofascists, survivalists, teetotallers, eugenicists, nudists, swingers, Quakers and pagans.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2011

I took with me, from the township, a dozen men I could depend upon, and to make doubly sure of them I gave them a hint where to peg out their ground.

From The Second String by Nat Gould

"Wa-al, I hev bin expectin' all along as how you'd peg out, but I'm derned ef you don't seem fresh as a daisy now!"

From Frank Merriwell's Bravery by Burt L. Standish

Lord Acton has laid down that 'every student ought to know that mastery is acquired by acknowledged limitation'—he must peg out his small holding and keep within its bounds.

From Studies in Literature and History by John O. Miller

He had imagined that he would feel like a gold-miner hurrying to peg out his claim, instead of which he was conscious of but one feeling, physical and nervous exhaustion.

From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer