peat
IPA: pˈit
noun
- Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas, often burned as fuel.
- (obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
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Examples of "peat" in Sentences
- This peat was transported to the west of the country.
- Some of the peat was burned by settlers to clear the land.
- Following the applications, the peat is returned to the moor.
- A line about the distinctive smell of Irish peat is used twice.
- The hydrological balance is critical for the initiation of peat.
- It becomes most luxuriant in partial shade, but is rare on peat.
- -- By mere convention, we call the peat which accumulated in the
- The sinkhole originates in peat and then cuts into limestone rock.
- They did not permit the excavation of the peat layer on its lands.
- This allows climatologists to use peat as an indicator of climatic change.
- In the beginning the town, there was a center of peat briquettes producing.
- The river is dark with peat from the fell, curlews are calling with nothing to tell.
- Also on hand, the rosemary, in peat pots, popped back into the shade because of the ferocious heat today.
- The gentleman doing the serving of the quiche was cutting it like peat in a peat bog, placing a block on each partaker's plate.
- The word peat has its roots in the Old Celtic root word pett - meaning piece in reference to a piece of peat that had been cut from a bog.
- She fed the pigs, herded the cattle, assisted in planting potatoes and digging peat from the bog, and was undisputed mistress of the poultry-yard.
- The peat is scattered on the spill and absorbs the oil, and, because it doesn’t absorb water, it can then simply be scooped out — taking the toxic oil with it.
- And with that, doesn’t it seem like the long lines become a little more rough hewn, like sea bleached beams, and have also something of the dark things preserved in peat bogs?
- Others probably come more properly under the common name peat, as the mixed earthy matter is too small to be cultivated without the addition of earthy matter, and have remained in situ, and undisturbed since their seeds took root.
- Pine-apples are sometimes grown without pots, in peat soil, through which pipes of hot water are carried so as to heat the earth to 95°, while the atmosphere is kept moist, and decayed leaves are laid on the surface and drawn up round the plants.
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