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
Example Sentences
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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
"Roy O'Mara's bottomed on opal there ... got some pretty good colours, and we're goin' to peg out."
From The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard
Almost immediately they began to "peg out their claims."
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by James Edward Parrott
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
But I’ll not let them calves stir one peg out of this with him!
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
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