See Also: turbary(dictionary)
TURBARY, Eng(law)

turbary (iou)



turbary noun. LME.
[Anglo-Norman turberie, Old French tourberie (medieval Latin turbaria), from tourbe TURF noun: see -ARY1.]
(A tract of) land where peat may be dug for fuel; (a) peatbog, (a) peatmoss. Formerly also (rare), peat. LME.
Law. The right to dig peat for fuel on a common or on another person's land. M16.
Comb.: turbary pig, turbary sheep (an animal of) a prehistoric breed of domesticated pig, sheep, first found in turbaries in Swiss neolithic lake-dwellings and sometimes identified with certain surviving breeds.