'Peat' definitions:
Definition of 'peat'
(from WordNet)
noun
Partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
Definition of 'Peat'
From: GCIDE
- Peat \Peat\ (p[=e]t), n. [Cf. Pet a fondling.] A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Peat'
From: GCIDE
- Peat \Peat\, n. [Prob. for beat, prop., material used to make the fire burn better, fr. AS. b[=e]tan to better, mend (a fire), b[=o]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. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'peat'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alcohol,
- benzine,
- briquette,
- burnable,
- butane,
- carbon,
- charcoal,
- coal,
- coke,
- combustible,
- dope,
- ethane,
- ethanol,
- fireball,
- firing,
- flammable,
- flammable material,
- fuel,
- fuel additive,
- fuel dope,
- gas,
- gas carbon,
- gasoline,
- heptane,
- hexane,
- inflammable,
- inflammable material,
- isooctane,
- jet fuel,
- kerosene,
- methane,
- methanol,
- natural gas,
- octane,
- oil,
- paraffin,
- pentane,
- propane,
- propellant,
- rocket fuel,
- turf