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- noun Plural form of
turbary .
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Examples
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It is in the autumn that the moles heap up meanders of miniature barrows, built of the softest brown loam; and in the turbaries the turf-cutters pile larger and darker stacks of peat.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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Except in the immediate vicinity of the collieries, they suffer more from cold than when the woods and turbaries were open.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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