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peaty

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peat  (pt)
n.
Partially carbonized vegetable matter, usually mosses, found in bogs and used as fertilizer and fuel.

[Middle English pete, perhaps from Medieval Latin peta.]

peaty adj.
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Adj.1.peaty - of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat
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peaty [ˈpiːtɪ] ADJ (peatier (compar) (peatiest (superl))) → turboso
peaty
adj (+er)torfig; tastenach Torf
peaty [ˈpiːtɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → torboso/a


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The broad strips of bracken glowed red and yellow against the black peaty soil, and a queenly doe who grazed among them turned her white front and her great questioning eyes towards the wayfarers.
Now the Halakazi raised a shout, and charged to come at the young men led by Galazi the Wolf; but beyond the foot of the slope was peaty ground, and they came through it heavily, and as they came Galazi and the young men fell upon them and slew them; still, they could not hold them back for long, because of their great numbers, and presently the battle ranged all along the slope.
We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog.
 
 
 
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