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Turf
TURF, n.
1. That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold, which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat. This is otherwise called sward and sod.
2. Peat; a peculiar kind of blackish, fibrous, vegetable, earthy substance, used as fuel. [Dryden and Addison wrote turfs, in the plural. But when turf or peat is cut into small pieces, the practice now is to call them turves.]
3. Race-ground; or horse-racing.
The honors of the turf are all our own.
TURF, v.t. To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank or the border of a terrace.
TURF'-COVERED, a. Covered with turf.
TURF'-DRAIN, n. A drain filled with turf or peat.
turf appears in definitions for these words:
Altar Amphitheater Bowling-green Breastplow Carpet-walk Cespititious Cespitous Char-woman Charcoal Clod Common Gazon Glebe Glebous Gleby Grass Green-sward Livery Peat Print Scraw Settle Sod Soddy Sward Terrace Thirdings Turbary Turf Turfed Turfiness Turfing Turfing-iron Turfing-spade Turfy Vell Windrow
Altar Amphitheater Bowling-green Breastplow Carpet-walk Cespititious Cespitous Char-woman Charcoal Clod Common Gazon Glebe Glebous Gleby Grass Green-sward Livery Peat Print Scraw Settle Sod Soddy Sward Terrace Thirdings Turbary Turf Turfed Turfiness Turfing Turfing-iron Turfing-spade Turfy Vell Windrow
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