PEATY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does peaty mean? 

• PEATY (adjective)
  The adjective PEATY has 1 sense:

1. of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat

  Familiarity information: PEATY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEATY (adjective)

Comparative: peatier   
Superlative: peatiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or of the nature of peat

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

With high hopes we struck across the peaty, russet moor, intersected with a thousand sheep paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the morass between us and Holdernesse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The broad strips of bracken glowed red and yellow against the black peaty soil, and a queenly doe who grazed among them turned her white front and her great questioning eyes towards the wayfarers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now and again a peaty amber colored stream rippled across their way, with ferny over-grown banks, where the blue kingfisher flitted busily from side to side, or the gray and pensive heron, swollen with trout and dignity, stood ankle-deep among the sedges.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)