'Peat bog' definitions:
Definition of 'peat bog'
(from WordNet)
noun
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 [syn: bog, peat bog]
Definition of 'Peat bog'
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]