Definition of "mumble-the-peg" []

• A boys' game in which each player in turn throws a knife from a series of positions, continuing until he fails to make the blade stick in the ground. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In school-days and in town he acknowledged the sway of those mysterious and irresistible forces which produce tops at one season, and marbles at another, and kites at another, and bind all boyish hearts to play mumble-the-peg at the due time more certainly than the stars are bound to their orbits."
• ""To play mumble-the-peg with some boys: Haile Tabb's boys.""
• "There were shade-trees all along the street, that you could climb if you wanted to, or that you could lie down under when you had run yourself out of breath, or play mumble-the-peg."