Peat is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PEAT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a substance composed of partially decayed vegetable matter
• a brown material consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter forming a deposit on acidic, boggy, ground, which is dried for use in gardening and as fuel
• a cut piece of peat
• decayed vegetable material found in bogs
• A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
• A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.
• partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried

Words related to PEAT

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Words that contain PEAT

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How to use PEAT in a sentence

• The might of the deluge almost pressed me to the earth, I carried Elspeth into her bower, but the roof of branches was speedily beaten down, and it was no better than a peat bog.
• Light, sandy peat would seem to suit it well, at least in such it grows and flowers freely.
• It stopped with a violent shock, he heard stones fall, and was thrown off amidst a shower of peat.
• This house, with forty acres of land, some rocky and sterile, and some rich meadow and peat, formed the possessions of the Prestons in Westmoreland.
• The pots should be filled with sandy peat and be well drained.
• They flourish best in peat and loam, and are increased by cuttings planted in sand and subjected to gentle heat.
• May be readily raised from seed sown in a cold frame in March, or cuttings taken off at a joint will strike in peat and sand.
• Lilium seed may be sown in well-drained pots or shallow boxes filled with equal parts of peat, leaf-mould, loam, and sand.
• A mixture of loam and peat is most suitable for their growth.
• They thrive best in fibrous peat or a rich, light soil, and prefer a warm situation.
• To the left is the fire-place, an open hearth, with a fire of peat.
• The men open an inner door, and we enter a long corridor, comfortably warmed by a peat fire.
• The most suitable soil is a light fibrous loam, combined with a little peat and silver sand.
• Where it first struck, it cut up the peat as if with a knife, and made a broad deep trench which remained afterwards as a witness of its eccentric conduct.
• Their growth has played a large part in the formation of peat.
• But on some slough soils a stand cannot be secured by this method of sowing, more especially when they are composed of raw peat.
• I have never yet smelt peat, but this is like my dreams.
• This is the process which follows the complete draining of such lands as contain large proportions of clay or of peat.
• I noticed that in a considerable number of the old cottages, the stone wall only reached up a foot or two from the ground, the rest being made up of blocks of peat.
• Like a tree, the peat has its time of growth and its time of rest.
• For we know not how long they were there before the peat began to grow.
• And the daughter? Was her blush a favorable sign? Poor Ole Anderson keeps his peat moor and his pasture land, but rich Morten Bruus is angry at me because of it.
• He went to the fire and snatched up a burning peat, moving it rapidly from hand to hand, and blowing it into a red glow with his misty breath.
• The moor itself spreads north, south, east, and west, a great undulating sea of black peat and heath.
• This colour proceeds from the moss water, as it is called, which runs into the rivers, or the infusion of that vegetable substance which forms combustible turf, called peat.
• In Holland and other countries a kind of turf called peat is dug up in great quantities and used for fuel.

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