turbary
Americannoun
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land, or a piece of land, where turf or peat may be dug or cut.
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Law. the right to cut turf or peat on a common land or on another person's land.
noun
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land where peat or turf is cut or has been cut
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Also called: common of turbary. (in England) the legal right to cut peat for fuel on a common
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Etymology
Origin of turbary
1275–1325; Middle English turbarye < Medieval Latin turbāria, equivalent to turb(a) turf + -āria -ary ( def. )
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Like many rural families, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan's have turf-cutting - or turbary - rights on a bog that is among Europe's most threatened habitats.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2011
Their rights of usufruct, grazing, pannage, estovers, turbary and piscary survived for many centuries before being terminated: first informally, later in wholesale acts of enclosure.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2011
In the trials for turbary in the Kiltyclogher cases a rule made by a landlord in his office overrides even a lease, and is accepted as de facto law in the court.
From The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland by McDougall, Margaret Moran Dixon
The privilege of turbary, or “getting turf,” was a valuable one, and was conferred frequently on the burgesses of towns paying scot and lot.
From Recollections of Old Liverpool by Nonagenarian, A
And then came their lawsuit with Waverley Abbey, and the Cistercians laid claim to their richest land, with peccary, turbary and feudal rights over the remainder.
From Sir Nigel by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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 Lever, Charles James
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 Falkner, John Meade
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 Morley, Henry
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