peat : Idioms & Phrases

• . (a) A piece of peat used as a gathering coal, to preserve a fire. (b) In Scotland, a fiery peat which was sent round by the Borderers as an alarm signal, as the fiery cross was by the Highlanders.

Webster 1913

• 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
  bog.
  

WordNet

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

Webster 1913

• noun any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
  sphagnum; sphagnum moss; bog moss.
  

WordNet

• . (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.

Webster 1913

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

Webster 1913

• (Min.), a black homogeneous peat, with a waxy luster.

Webster 1913