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Definition of Turf out

1. Verb. Put out or expel from a place. "The unruly student was excluded from the game"

Definition of Turf out

1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic usually of a person) To remove or eject from a place. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Turf Out

Literary usage of Turf out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. England's Gazetteer: Or, An Accurate Description of All the Cities, Towns ...by Stephen Whatley by Stephen Whatley (1751)
"... Bt. granted 50 /. a year for the maintenance of the Jaid. preacher and almf- women, to be ¡(turf out of King's. Langley-Park for ever. ..."

2. Irish Equity Reports by Ireland High Court of Chancery, Ireland, Ireland Rolls Court, Rolls Court, High Court of Chancery (1839)
"... and, by the same notice, distinctly withdrew and revoked the permission to cut turf out of the said bog, which he had continued to give them until then, ..."

3. Ireland: Its Scenery, Character, &c. by Samuel Carter Hall (1842)
"Upon these barrows ho carries the turf out upon the spread-field. The third mnn goes before the turf-cutter, paving and levelling the banks, and a man lifts ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"... the hole he was digging and the previous hole, and baled the water over it, whilst he got the bottom "lift" of the turf out. MIDGE, s. a kind of gnat. ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"I <:r as " The next business is to bring in the water, after just lifting the turf out of the gutters already cut. A spirit-level may be nsed, ..."

6. Chitty's Index to All the Reported Cases Decided in the Several Courts of by Edward Chitty (1888)
"A. demised certain lands to В., and for some years allowed B. and his under-tenants to cut turf out of a bog adjoining the lands demised ; some acres of the ..."

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