Lexicographical Neighbors of Peatary
Literary usage of Peatary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Antiquary, Or, Northern Notes & Queries edited by Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen, John Horne Stevenson (1899)
"... and from the hill to the west side of the peatary [petera; Sir W. Fraser renders
this ' craig,' but I think it means peatary] of ..."
2. The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage by James Balfour Paul (1907)
"... some time after his marriage, granted to the monks of Dryburgh, on behalf of
himself and Alicia, his spouse, certain rights of pasturage and peatary in ..."
3. Sketches of Early Scotch History and Social Progress: Church Organization by Cosmo Innes (1861)
"Peats formed the common fuel of the country, and a right to a peatary was of
great importance. Even at Preston, now so surrounded ..."
4. Balmerino and Its Abbey: A Parish History with Notices of the Adjacent District by James Campbell (1899)
"... Earl of Winchester and Great Constable of Scotland, grants to the Abbey a
portion of his peatary in his moss of Swan Mire near Leuchars. ..."
5. Influence of the Pre-reformation Church on Scottish Place-names by James Murray Mackinlay (1904)
"... and twenty cart-loads of peats from the peatary of his lordship, with the
liberty of taking wood for fuel for the use of their grange, where the men of ..."
6. Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical by Alexander Johnston Warden (1885)
"... lineage occurring about the same time. The fixing of the boundaries at so
early a period is very interesting. There are minute provisions of peatary ..."
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