A slab or block of peat dug for use as fuel.

As a count noun. Chiefly Scottish. A piece of peat which has been cut, typically in the shape of a brick, for use as fuel. See note at turf, n.1 3a.

transferred. The substance obtained from or forming a turbary; peat. Obsolete.

collective as a substance; peat.

Peat used for burning. Also in Mineralogy: †a friable variety of lignite (obsolete).

= peat, n.1 2.

a layer of soil found in fens, consisting of a mass of decaying organic material mixed with soft clay and having a powerful odour.

Dried turf or peat used as fuel; a piece of this.

(a piece of) peat extracted by digging horizontally into a bank using a spade; cf. foot peat n. at foot, n. int.compounds 3.

(see quots.).

Scottish. A piece of turf used for fuel; a peat.

A brick-shaped peat.

= flaught, n.1 A turf.

A block of peat; a spade's depth in digging turf.