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Peat reek
Peat Peat, n. [Prob. for beat, prop., material used to make the fire burn better, fr. AS. b?tan to better, mend (a fire), b?t advantage. See Better, Boot advantage.] A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel. Peat bog, a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss. Peat moss. (a) The plants which, when decomposed, become peat. (b) A fen producing peat. (c) (Bot.) Moss of the genus Sphagnum, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places. Peat reek, the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with peat as fuel. [Scot.]

Meaning of Peat reek from wikipedia

- bein' fit to write in Gr****, I wrote in Lallan, Dear to my heart as the peat r****, Auld as Tantallon. —Robert Louis Stevenson in "The Maker to Posterity"...
- two volumes of poetry in Scots – Pro Patria in 1915 and Bog Myrtle and Peat R**** in 1922. He was a member of Glasgow Art Club for over fifty years, closely...
- The term refers to the smoke (or r****) infused in the drink by drying the malted barley over a peat fire. "Peat R****" is also the brand name of a legal...
- bein' fit to write in Gr****, I write in Lallan, Dear to my heart as the peat r****, Auld as Tantallon. "Few spak it then, an' noo there's nane. My puir auld...
- kilometres (2.4 mi × 2.5 mi) and a diamond-shaped outline, with northern R**** Point, eastern Pungent Point, southern Fume Point and western Stench Point...
- Sculptor James Pittendrigh Macgillivray's collection Bog-Myrtle and Peat R****: verse mainly in the North & South country dialects of Scotland is published...
- E. Housman, Last Poems James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, Bog Myrtle and Peat R****, Scottish poet writing chiefly in dialect Hughes Mearns, "Antigonish"...
- and cello (1912) Lament in G minor March of the Little Folk in E♭ major Peat R**** in G minor Scherzino in G minor Humoresque in A The Dhu Loch in D Red...
- October 2021. The Scotch Malt Whisky Society: Highland Park: Where the peat still r****s in the old way "The Scotch Malt Whisky Society - USA". Archived from...
- Boggeragh Mountains, Derrynasaggart Mountains, Caha Mountains, MacGillycuddy's R****s, Slieve Mish Mountains, Mullaghareirk Mountains, the Twelve Bens/Maumturks...