单词 | peatery |
释义 | peateryn. historical (chiefly Scottish). A place from which peats are cut; a peatbog. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > other organic fuels > [noun] > place to cut peats peatery1810 peat-bank1887 1810 G. Chalmers Caledonia II. iii. viii. 338 [He] granted them a peatary. 1872 C. Innes Lect. Sc. Legal Antiq. 227 They say upon their oath that the burgesses cut their peats in the petary of Waltamshope. 1901 Dundee Advertiser 5 June 5 Here also are the peatries, where no end of that valuable commodity may yet be had. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles xxv. 210 Since turbaria also occurs in early documents, ‘turbaries’ and ‘peateries’ seem to have been distinguishable from each other. 1996 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 93 11705/2 We calculated these parameters for buried leaves from a core of a peat deposit, presently formed in a small (10–15 m2) bog in an abandoned peatery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1810 |
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