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turbary

Syllables: turb·a·ry/ˈtɜːbəɹi/US/ˈtɜɹbəɹi/

turbary noun: peatland from which peat or turf may be cut for fuel; (countable) a piece of such land; a peat bog.

turbary: peatland from which peat or turf may be cut for fuel; (countable) a piece of such land; a peat bog
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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.

turbary meaning in Tamil

turbary in Tamil

அயற்கரி எடுப்புரிமை, தூள்கரி தொடுநிலம், தூள் நிலக்கரி தோண்டி யெடுக்கப்படுமிடம்

Forms of turbary

pluralturbaries

Origin of turbary

Inherited from Middle English turbarie (“place where peat is dug, peat bog; substance obtained from such a place, peat”), from Anglo-Norman turbarie, turberie, and Old French torberie, tourbarie, turbarie, from Medieval Latin turbāria, from turba (“turf”) (whence Old French tourbe) + Latin -āria (suffix forming abstract nouns). Turba is derived from Proto-West Germanic *turb (“peat; turf”); from Proto-Germanic *turbz (“peat; turf”), from Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“grass; tuft”). Doublet of turf.

Words formed from turbary

Questions about turbary

What does turbary mean?
Turbary means peatland from which peat or turf may be cut for fuel; (countable) a piece of such land; a peat bog.
What is turbary in Tamil?
Turbary in Tamil is அயற்கரி எடுப்புரிமை, தூள்கரி தொடுநிலம், தூள் நிலக்கரி தோண்டி யெடுக்கப்படுமிடம். See Turbary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is turbary?
Turbary is a noun.
How do you pronounce turbary?
Turbary is pronounced /ˈtɜːbəɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of turbary?
The plural of turbary is turbaries.

Words near turbary in the dictionary

  1. turbans
  2. turbant
  3. turbants
  4. turbanwise
  5. turbaries
  6. turbary
  7. Turbat
  8. turbated
  9. turbation
  10. turbational
  11. turbations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turbary (page history and authors); turbary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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