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Definition of Turbaries
1. turbary [n] - See also: turbary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turbaries
Literary usage of Turbaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine, Taylor and Francis (1868)
"Wjs know very little about the birds of which the remains are found in turbaries,
and hitherto their precise determination has never been attempted. ..."
2. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1868)
"Lake Habitations and Pre-Historic Remains in the turbaries and Marl-Beds of
Northern and Central Italy. By Bartolo- meo Gastaldi. Translated and Edited by ..."
3. Statistics of Coal: Including Mineral Bituminous Substances Employed in Arts by Richard Cowling Taylor, Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1855)
"turbaries, formed in depressions of the soil, where the shallow waters constantly
remain, are found dispersed, here and there, on the surface of plateaux ..."
4. The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries, and Coal Trade by John Holland (1841)
"... Peat bogs— Analogy between the depositions of some stratified turbaries and
the Coal formation—Method of digging and preparing Peat in Ireland—Varieties ..."
5. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"In Ireland, it occurs in the shell marl underlying the extensive turbaries.
In England, lacustrine deposits and brick-clay contain its remains, and, ..."
6. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1866)
"Lake Habitations and Pre-historic Remains in the turbaries and Marl-beds of
Northern and Central Italy. By BARTOLOMEO GASTALDI, Professor of Mineralogy, ..."
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