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Definition of Petered
1. peter [v] - See also: peter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petered
Literary usage of Petered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rocky Mountain Adventures by Mason Bradford Shelton (1920)
"VALUABLE ORE BUT "petered OUT." Away up in one of the mountain gorges there was
a small mining camp named Georgetown, the objective point of my journey. ..."
2. Bunch Grass: A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch by Horace Annesley Vachell (1912)
"petered out—me ? Wal," he glanced at Leveson, " somebody is petered out, but it
ain't me. Did ye ever see a man scairt worse'n him ? ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Democratic politician of some prominence, seems to have quite petered OUT. 1888.
Miss ... ^93. ... Then the bar petered OUT, And the boys wouldn t stay. ..."
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