In 1888 Anstey and party actually found colours of gold, and pegged out a claim, whose corner posts were standing at the time of the first rush; but nobody heeded them, for the quartz was not rich enough.
Finding that in the meantime others had been there and pegged out leases and claims, we passed on and set up our condensers on the "Wind and Water" lake, and began to get an inkling that our job was not to be of the pleasantest.
This is pegged to the top surface of the gunwale, to where the paddles rub, to prevent the sides of the canoe from being worn.
A player (rover) who pegs out a rover by a roquet loses the remainder of his turn because a rover when pegged out is out of the game and croquet cannot be taken from it.
A rover can be pegged out by any stroke (not foul) of another rover, whether of the same or the adverse side.
Players can, however, mutually agree before the commencement of the game that rovers shall not be pegged out by adverse rovers.
The shoot must then be carefully pegged down with a hairpin or a zinc layer pin in such a way that the cut is left open and the tongue is firmly fixed in the soil.
A little more soil should then be put over the part that is pegged down, and water given with a fine rose.
Here he stopped, and, with a couple of dexterous turns of the wrist, pegged the bird on its back with outstretched wings.
In January 1999, the Brazilian Central Bank announced that the real would no longer be pegged to the US dollar.
The Layer may be held down by a forked stick ("pegged down"), or by a stone or clod.
Again they would resort to layering; in which case a branch, notched half way through on the lower side, was bent to the ground and pegged down so that the notched portion was covered with a few inches of soil.
Jack was as fine a mate as iver I met; but whether he staked off a claim up aloft, or pegged out in the other place, I'm darned if I knows.
We pegged out seven prospector's claims, and after a final look round prepared to move, our intention being to arrange for suitable transport for stores and water, and then come back.
The hundreds of others who had pegged out beyond us were not so quickly convinced, and they announced their intention of sinking to bedrock if they "busted" in the attempt.
Next day we pegged out six prospectors' claims along both banks of the stream, including, of course, as much of the alluvial land on either side as our claims would allow.
I must not forget these boxes, which are most ingeniously made of the pith of a balm leaf pegged together, lined inside with pandanus leaves, and outside with the same, or with plaited grass.
In war, on the other hand, even if you do get killed you only anticipate the inevitable by a few years in any case, and you have the satisfaction of knowing that you have "pegged out" in the attempt to help your country.
A two-bagger by the opponent’s third baseman put men on third and second and both players scored a minute later when Captain Warner pegged the ball four feet over Buster’s head.
By the time he was racing back to his base the Minturn first baseman had caught the fly and pegged the ball across to shortstop and Tom made the third out.
She bought it and gave it to him, and there he pegged away day after day.
Day and night I pegged away, not for the sake of the Examination, but for the sake of once more meeting her.
A lock of the sufferer's hair was pegged into an oak; then by a sudden wrench he left his hair and his ague behind him in the tree.
M41 Sickness and pain pegged or nailed into trees.
Before he could realize what was happening, the other miners crowded round, and peggedout claims to the very borders of his tent.
They walked out of the hotel and through the town towards the rush, where half a dozen new claims had been pegged a few weeks before.
I have pegged out a good many claims in my time and never got much more than my tucker out of any of them--though there was a show I came on once up the Gulf way that I've always been a bit sorry I didn't stop and look into.
On this a heavy army tent, which had been brought from White Horse, was erected by the Scouts themselves and stoutly pegged and guyed in the most approved fashion.
Over all they drew the tarpaulins and pegged them down.
Mr. Dall collected a large number of two-pegged sticks from Nunivak Island and four three-pegged sticks labeled the same.
The middle finger is also pegged off, and the last two fingers have to shift for themselves.
In these three-pegged sticks the ring-finger and the little finger are inclosed together.
At the front end of the throwing-stick a narrow piece of ivory is pegged to prevent splitting.
Specimen from Yukon River, belonging to the Northern Sound one-pegged variety.
Its shape was impressed upon my memory as plainly as in the earth before my eyes; and it required no quartermaster to recognise the low, ill-rounded heel and flat pegged soles.
Here and there, hides freshly flayed were pegged out upon the grass, with squaws kneeling around them, engaged in the operation of graining.
The man had profited by the judgment pronounced, and had dashed away to the claim which Palmer Billy had pegged out for himself.
Our claims are pegged out by Government, so why should we grumble at others having a look in on their own.
The men were too anxious to overtake those who were ahead, and get their claims pegged out, to think of anything else.
Buck and I went out and skinned our buffaloes; brought in and pegged out the hides.
Before noon everybody was in camp and the 88 hides pegged out and drying.
Lord Victor arrived now, and as he had not yet seen the skin of Pundit Bagh he was taken to where it was pegged out on the ground and being rubbed with ashes and alum.
The pegged cloth indicated that the female occupants were within, but ‘not at home,’ nor would they be visible until the wind had dried the garments that fluttered overhead.
In a few cases the tents were pegged down all round, and across the top, upon a stout line, there hung a few articles fresh from the wash.
The marka - the national currency introduced in 1998 - is now pegged to the euro, and the Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina has dramatically increased its reserve holdings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pegged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
