peat

Partially decomposed vegetable matter, usually mosses, found in bogs and used as fertilizer and fuel.

An obsolete variant of pet.

Partly decomposed vegetable matter, produced under various conditions of climate and topography, and of considerable importance in certain regions as fuel.

A small block of peat-bog or -moss, resembling an ordinary brick in shape, cut and dried for fuel.

A small person; a pet; — sometimes used contemptuously.

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.

a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss.

Moss of the genus Sphagnum, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places.

the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with peat as fuel.

partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried