turbaries

Noun

turbary (countable and uncountable, plural turbaries)

1. (uncountable) Peatland from which peat or turf may be cut for fuel; (countable) a piece of such land; a peat bog.
   • But remember this, it doesn't pay to set yourself against me, because I own both the infield and the turbary in the village, and without my leave, you'll get neither milk nor fuel.1970, Heðin Brú [pseudonym; Hans Jacob Jacobsen], chapter 10, in John F. West, transl., The Old Man and His Sons, London: Saqi, published 2013, →ISBN
2. (broadly) In full common of turbary: the right to cut peat or turf from peatland on a common or another person's land.
   • Common of piſcary is a liberty of fiſhing in another man's waters; as common of turbary is a liberty of digging turf upon another's ground. […] All theſe bear a reſemblance to common of paſture in many reſpects; thought in one point they go much farther: common of paſture being only a right of...1766, William Blackstone, “Of Incorporeal Hereditaments”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book II (Of the Rights of Things), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 34
3. (broadly, obsolete) Material extracted from peatland; peat.