Definitions for peat

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peat peat

Spelling: [peet]

IPA: /pit/

Peat is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in peat (aept).

Definitions for peat

noun

1. a highly organic material found in marshy or damp regions, composed of partially decayed vegetable matter: it is cut and dried for use as fuel.
2. such vegetable matter used as fertilizer or fuel.
3. a merry young girl; darling (used as a term of endearment).

Origin of peat

1300-50; Middle English pete (compare Anglo-Latin peta)

Examples for peat

There he was in the peat loft when I went for the peats, and he had it all as fine as clerk after passon.

For a peat fire smouldered on the hearth and the room was filled with smoke.

He broke the peat with the peat-stick and kicked it into the fire.

The place where first the cuckoo sings, Is by the peat pits on the hills.

The room was dark by this time, and only the sullen glow from the peat fire was on our faces.

With that, she sat down at the round table near the peat fire.

A man went from his house for peat to the stack on the hill.

From the peat of lower depths no cellulose could be obtained.

I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days.

This accounts for that great pebble of peat which we saw in the surf.