peg out
Britishverb
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informal (intr) to collapse or die
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croquet
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(intr) to win a game by hitting the peg
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(tr) to cause (an opponent's ball) to hit the peg, rendering it out of the game
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(intr) cribbage to score the point that wins the game
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(tr) to mark or secure with pegs
to peg out one's claims to a piece of land
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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
Men do peg out at any time in this country.
From For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss
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
We mustn’t stay here, but go up to one of the little streams they’re talking about, and peg out claims as soon as we find good signs.
From To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by Paul Hardy
“You’re not going to peg out, are you?” he questioned.
From Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 by James Elverson
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