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Turbary   Listen
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Turbary  n.  (pl. turbaries)  (Eng. Law) A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Turbary" Quotes from Famous Books



... lawsuit with Waverley Abbey, and the Cistercians laid claim to their richest land, with peccary, turbary and feudal rights over the remainder. It lingered on for years, this great lawsuit, and when it was finished the men of the Church and the men of the Law had divided all that was richest of the estate between them. There was still left the old manor-house from which ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

... we passed over a vegetable fibrous peat bog, left from the ancient vegetation of this peninsula. The vast quantity of this unworked fuel would be sufficient to warm the whole population of Iceland for a century; this vast turbary measured in certain ravines had in many places a depth of seventy feet, and presented layers of carbonized remains of vegetation alternating with ...
— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne



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