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Definition of Peated

Peat
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.]
Peat
Peat Peat, n. [Cf. Pet a fondling.] A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [Obs.] --Shak.

Meaning of Peated from wikipedia

- Peat is an ac****ulation of partially deca**** vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs...
- generally originate from northern Scotland. Peated malt is distiller's malt that has been smoked over burning peat, which imparts the aroma and flavor characteristics...
- A bog or bogland is a wetland that ac****ulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materialsoften mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four...
- "KPMG" stands for "Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler". The initialism was chosen when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick in 1987. KPMG is...
- Look up Peat or peat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peat is an ac****ulation of deca**** vegetation matter. Peat may also refer to: Peat (surname)...
- triple-distilled, non-peated whisky. Hazelburn is also named after a mothballed distillery near the Springbank one. Longrow Single Malt is a highly peated, double-distilled...
- The name coco peat may refer either to coir or the pith or a mixture, as both have good water-retaining properties as a substitute for peat. The name coir...
- World Championship in 1983–1985. The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps three-peated 2000–2002 (2000 was a tie with the Cadets). The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle...
- a strongly peated whisky. Trees, other than plantations, on these islands are scattered and the peat is free of rotting wood. (Normal peat bogs are invaded...
- some variants, peated barley. Barley is procured from Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan, while the peated barley is imported from Scotland. Peat is a fossil...