Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To mark (a territory or area) with pegs. (from 19th c.) 2 (context intransitive English) To die. (from 19th c.) 3 (context croquet intransitive English) To finish a game of croquet. (from 19th c.) 4 (context cribbage English) To move one's peg to the last position on the pegboard, and thus win. (from 19th c.) 5 (context transitive English) To hang up (washing) using pegs. (from 20th c.)
Usage examples of "peg out".
I found out later that George had gone inside with Molly and Peggy, had helped get Peg out of the stretcher and back into her room, and then had gone outside, leaving Molly to get breakfast.
Dish won and Newt had to dig a peg out of the ground with his teeth.
He hefted the stick of wood like a mallet and drove it against the small end of the huge peg that went through the hub of the wheel-luckily, it was the large end that had broken off, or knocking the old peg out would have been much more difficult.
He hefted the stick of wood like a mallet and drove it against the small end of the huge peg that went through the hub of the wheelluckily, it was the large end that had broken off, or knocking the old peg out would have been much more difficult.
Hamiska's cap, and then helped him measure and peg out an area around the find.
A door opened and a cat emerged, followed by a woman with a basket of washing, which she proceeded to peg out on a line slung across the face of her house.
Sue Long, an old schoolfriend whose boyfriend set his own trousers on fire for a bet, Sarah Nara, who lost her ear at Bilohirsk on a training accident and ended up marrying General Pearson, croquet pro Alf Widdershaine, who taught me how to 'peg out' all the way from the forty-yard line.
Urquhart stands to gain something when the old woman does peg out,”.
He dived for the edge of the tent, levered a peg out, and crawled through the gap.
This time, the dial didn't peg out at the top, but stopped halfway.
In fact, I think they had practically settled that they were to get married now that Winter has had the grace to peg out.