peg out

English

Verb

peg out (third-person singular simple present pegs out, present participle pegging out, simple past and past participle pegged out)

1. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To mark (a territory or area) with pegs. [from 19th c.]
2. (deprecated template usage) (intransitive) To die. [from 19th c.]
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 64:

     I don't know what they went to ask her for; but Percy and Harold didn't peg out.

3. (deprecated template usage) (croquet, intransitive) To finish a game of croquet. [from 19th c.]
4. (deprecated template usage) (cribbage) To move one's peg to the last position on the pegboard, and thus win. [from 19th c.]
5. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To hang up (washing) using pegs. [from 20th c.]