peat
pronunciation
How to pronounce peat in British English:
UK [pi:t]
How to pronounce peat in American English:
US [pit]
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- Noun:
- partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
Word Origin
- peat
- peat: see piece
- peat (n.)
- c. 1200, in Scottish Latin, of unknown origin, probably from a Celtic root *pett- (cognates: Cornish peyth, Welsh peth "quantity, part, thing," Old Irish pet, Breton pez "piece"). The earliest sense is not of the turf but of the cut piece of it, and the Celtic root may be connected to that of piece.
Example
- 1. As elsewhere in indonesia , peat in riau is disappearing .
- 2. It 's black and sponge-like , a little bit like peat .
- 3. Most ancient peat forests die gradually , leaving only spotty evidence of what grew there .
- 4. Apparently extinguished , many smouldered in underground peat , then inflamed again .
- 5. More than half of the wind turbines in scotland are on highland peat . This is not sensible .