A slab pared from the surface of the soil with the grass and herbage growing on it; a sod of grass, with the roots and earth adhering. Also, in…

A piece cut out of or pared off the sward; a turf, sod. Also collective. Now dialect (East Anglian).

A hardened lump of earth. In this sense still dialectal; in the literary language clod, n. has taken… A clod with the grass on it; a sod.

A piece or slice of earth together with the grass growing on it, usually square or oblong in shape and of moderate thickness, cut out or pared off…

A turf.

A piece of turf or sod.

As a count noun. A piece of turf; a sod. Now rare.

A lump of turf with the adherent earth; a sod, a peat. Obsolete exc. dialect. Formerly also clot, n.

Scottish and Irish English. A piece of low-grade peat or turf with the grass on it, used esp. as fuel.

A piece of turf, a sod. Obsolete.

A thin layer of turf. Obsolete.

(Cf. flake, n.2 4 5, and flag, n.2 1 2.) A turf, or collective turf. a flaw of peats: the quantity got in a season.