Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The smoke of peat.
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Examples
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It was so thick with peat-reek that throat and eyes were always smarting.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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I had a scrub with a piece of yellow soap at an adjacent pool in the burn and then entered a kitchen blue with peat-reek.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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In the opener glades of the woods the wild hyacinths lie in the hollows, in wreaths and festoons of smoke as blue as peat-reek.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Year by year the little green and yellow patches down there increased in number and size; rood after rood was cut out of the heathery waste, little houses sprang up with red-tiled roofs and low chimneys breathing oily peat-reek.
Tales of Two Countries Alexander Lange Kielland 1877
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He was in the practice of sitting in one of its dingy little rooms, day after day, imbibing whisky and peat-reek; and his favorite boon companion on these occasions was a Roman Catholic tenant who lived on the opposite side of the island, and who, when drinking with the minister, used regularly to fasten his horse beside the door, till at length all the parish came to know that when the horse was standing outside the minister was drinking within.
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I like it fine when I'm there, man; yet I kind of weary for Scots divots and the Scots peat-reek. "
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I like it fine when I'm there, man; yet I kind of weary for Scots divots and the Scots peat-reek. "
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
ruzuzu commented on the word peat-reek
"The smoke of peat."
--CD&C.
October 31, 2011
bilby commented on the word peat-reek
Whatchoo smokin?
November 1, 2011
fbharjo commented on the word peat-reek
a re(fried) peat?
November 1, 2011