turves

See also: Turves

English

Noun

turves

  1. plural of turf (“piece of sod”)
    • 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
      "It's an old custom the people had when they bought and sold land. They used to cut out a clod and hand it over to the buyer, and you weren't lawfully seised of your land - it didn't really belong to you - till the other fellow had actually given you a piece of it - like this." He held out the turves.

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turves

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of turvar
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