bog deal

British

noun

pine wood found preserved in peat bogs

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Just as he said that, there came in at the half-door Oona, the daughter of the house, having a few bits of bog deal from Connemara in her arms for the fire.

From Stories of Red Hanrahan by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

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