peat bog : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: peat bog	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for peat bog
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peat bog n wet spongy ground of decomposing vegetation; has poorer drainage than a swamp; soil is unfit for cultivation but can be cut and dried and used for fuel Synonym(s): bog, peat bog
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Peat \Peat\, n. [Prob. for beat, prop., material used to make the fire burn better, fr. AS. b[?]tan to better, mend (a fire), b[?]t advantage. See {Better}, {Boot} advantage.] 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.]