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Meanings of peat bed in English

Wetland where peat is extracted.

Synonyms
Examples for "peat bog"
Examples for "peat bog"
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A problem is in agreeing how much a peat bog emits.
Reuters
2
Well, they'd been buried in a peat bog for who knows how long.
Walking dead
3
There is not much point trying to drive a Ferrari through a peat bog.
The Irish Times
4
It is an unusual type of wetland- araisedpeat bog.
The new yorker
5
It is much harder to restore a peat bog than to replant a forest.
The Guardian
1
The rich Morten Bruns covets poor Ole Anderson's peat moor and pasture land.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
2
Poor Ole Anderson keeps his peat moor and his pasture land, but rich Morten Bruus is angry at me because of it.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
3
Restoring peat moors may be a relatively inexpensive way of tackling climate change, by blocking up drainage ditches and bringing back vegetation to the moors.
The Guardian
Usage of peat bed in English
1
A coal seam is a fossil peat bed.
The Elements of Geology
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Peat beds have sometimes a thickness of ten or twelve yards, or even more.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action
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The same process appears to be going on in a similar manner to-day in the peat beds of various northern countries.
The Story of Germ Life
4
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Through the Mackenzie Basin / A Narrative of the Athabasca and P...
5
On the basis that peat loses four fifths of its bulk in changing to coal, we may reckon the thickness of these ancient peat beds.
The Elements of Geology