Peat Definition

Peat Sentence Examples

• It likes fibrous peat in fissures of the rocks.

• Coal has not been found, but peat may be exploited under favourable economic conditions.

• It should be mixed with six or eight times its weight of loam or ashes, charred peat, charcoal-dust or some earthy matter, before it is applied to the soil, as from its causticity it is otherwise not unlikely to kill or injure the plants to which it is administered.

• The oak grows most luxuriantly on deep strong clays, calcareous marl or stiff loam, but will flourish in nearly any deep well-drained soil, excepting peat or loose sand; in marshy or moist places the tree may grow well for a time, but the timber is rarely sound; on hard rocky ground and exposed hillsides.

• Ironstone, peat and lime are found in the vicinity.