Thesaurus: peat

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1. n. A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
2. n. 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.
3. n. partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
4. A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [Obs.] Shak. 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.]
5. A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [Obs.]Shak.
6. n:100 n. partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried