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noun
Peatland from which peat or turf may be cut for fuel; (countable) a piece of such land; a peat bog.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: science, sciences
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noun
In full common of turbary: the right to cut peat or turf from peatland on a common or another person's land.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Topics: law, science, sciences
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Broader terms: profit à prendre
noun
Material extracted from peatland; peat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: science, sciences
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History
Inherited from Middle English turbarie (“place where peat is dug, peat bog; substance obtained from such a place, peat”), from Anglo-Norman turbarie, turberie, and Old French torberie, tourbarie, turbarie, from Medieval Latin turbāria, from turba (“turf”) (whence Old French tourbe) + Latin -āria (suffix forming abstract nouns). Turba is derived from Proto-West Germanic *turb (“peat; turf”); from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“peat; turf”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbh- (“grass; tuft”). Doublet of turf.
Across languages
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