peg out
(intr) informal to collapse or die
croquet
(intr) to win a game by hitting the peg
(tr) to cause (an opponent's ball) to hit the peg, rendering it out of the game
(intr) cribbage to score the point that wins the game
(tr) to mark or secure with pegs: to peg out one's claims to a piece of land
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How to use peg out in a sentence
To “link up the beachheads and peg out claims well inland” was necessarily the first aim of Overlord.
Blood in the Sand: When James Jones Wrote a Grunt’s View of D-Day | James Jones | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI cut a beautiful peg out of hard wood—one of those sharp, slender pegs that will go through anything but a stone.
Harper's Young People, June 8, 1880 | VariousIt was only a dull curiosity that turned him round at last to see what it was that made the Colonel peg out this time.
The Magnetic North | Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)And the natives often peg out a cock and surround him with snares to catch the wild birds which come to attack him.
Life in an Indian Outpost | Gordon CasserlyNo, I prefer putting a bullet through my brains in the Legion to returning to my country and then having to peg out.
In the Foreign Legion | Erwin Rosen
Herewith the good Mistris begins to get a drift, and away she goes with peg out of dores.
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