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Definition of Peats
1. peat [n] - See also: peat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peats
Literary usage of Peats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Iowa: To the Thirteenth by Iowa Geological Survey, Charles Abiathar White, Theodore Sutton Parvin, Orestes Henry St. John, Rush Emery (1870)
"peats-CEDAR COUNTY. No. 1. Sample from Peat Works, near Springdale,. ... It may
be stated with regard to the coke of all the peats analyzed, that they are ..."
2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"... in which he does not omit the circumstance, that the fuel of the inhabitants (vulgo,
the peats) comes from the land in which he was born. ..."
3. The history of the troubles and memorable transactions in Scotland, from the by John Spalding (1792)
"... no peats could be had to burn, for a load would have coft a merk, ... flee out
of the country for fear, fo not only were our peats,dear, but through the ..."
4. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"... no more nitrogen could he dissolved out from these mixtures by means of water
than was got from moor-earth alone. Some peats readily ..."
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