turbary
noun
land, or a piece of land, where turf or peat may be dug or cut.
turbaries
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pluralof turbary.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For them, my dear Jack, you must have messuages and tenements, and outhouses, townlands, and turbaries; corn, cattle, and cottages; pigs, potatoes, and peasantry.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
It is in the autumn that the moles heap up meanders of miniature barrows, built of the softest brown loam; and in the turbaries the turf-cutters pile larger and darker stacks of peat.
From The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
Except in the immediate vicinity of the collieries, they suffer more from cold than when the woods and turbaries were open.
From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Henry Morley
