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peatery|ˈpiːtərɪ|
[f. peat1 + -ery; in the forms petary, peatary after med.(Anglo-)L. petāria, f. peta peat.]
A place from which peats are dug or ‘cast’; a peat-bog or -bank.
[c1200in Liber de Melros (Bann. Cl.) 76 Sciatis me dedisse..quandam partem petarie mee in territorio de faringdun. 1337Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 536 note, In peteria de Beaurepaire, pro focali pro Abbathia.] 1810C. Chalmers Caledonia II. iii. viii. 338 [He] granted them a peatary. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 175 Gathered specimens of a Callitriche in the peatery at Grant's-house. 1872C. Innes Scott. Legal. Antiq. 227 They say upon their oath that the burgesses cut their peats in the petary of Waltamshope. 1873J. Geikie Gt. Ice Age xxiii. 308 Petaries became frequent objects of grant to the abbots and convents during the Scoto-Saxon period. 1901Dundee Advertiser 5 June 5 Here also are the peatries, where no end of that valuable commodity may yet be had. |