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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peat \Peat\, n. [Prob. for beat prop., material used to make
the fire burn better, fr AS b?tan to better, mend (a fire),
b?t advantage. See {Better}, {Boot} advantage.]
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.
{Peat bog}, a bog containing peat; also peat as it occurs in
such places; peat moss.
{Peat moss}.
a The plants which when decomposed, become peat.
b A fen producing peat.
c (Bot.) Moss of the genus {Sphagnum}, which often grows
abundantly in boggy or peaty places.
{Peat reek}, the reek or smoke of peat; hence also the
peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with
peat as fuel. [Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peat \Peat\, n. [Cf. {Pet} a fondling.]
A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
[Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
peat
n : partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water;
used as a fuel when dried
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