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Definition: TURBARY |
TURBARYNoun1. A right of digging turf on another man's land; also, the ground where turf is dug. |
Etymology: Turbary \Tur"ba*ry\, noun; plural Turbaries. [from Late Latin expression turbaria place for digging peat, from turba peat. See Turf.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vegetable | Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TURBARY |
| English words defined with "TURBARY": Turbaries. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TURBARY": Turbinaceous. (references) |
| "TURBARY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "TURBARY" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "TURBARY": Common of turbary. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "TURBARY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Vend Torfe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Торфено Блато. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Tõzegtelep (peatery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | moanee (bog, moor), kiart moaney, cair voaney. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urbarytay turfeira (peatbog). (various references) Торфяник. (various references) tresetište (moorland, peat bog, peatery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "TURBARY" (pronounced 'Tur"ba*ry'): Abbreviatory, Abditory, Abjuratory, Ablutionary, Absolutory, Absolvatory, Acceleratory, Acclamatory, Accusatory, Accustomary, Acetary, Acetimetry, Acidimetry, Acoumetry, Actino-chemistry, Actinometry, Actuary, Additionary, Additory, Adhortatory, Adiaphory, Adjuratory, Adjutory, Admaxillary, Adminiculary, Admissory, Admonitory, Adry, Adstrictory, Adulatory, Advisory, Advocatory, Aerometry, Affirmatory, Alary, Alchemistry, Alcoholometry, Alcoometry, Aldermanry, Aleatory, Aleberry, Alimentary, Alkalimetry, Allegory, Alleviatory, Allodiary, Allusory, Almonry, Almry, Altimetry. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-r-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: burry, tarry, yurta. | |
-3 letters: abut, arty, brat, bray, brut, bura, burr, bury, ruby, tabu, tray, tuba, yurt. | |
-4 letters: aby, arb, art, bar, bat, bay, bra, brr, bur, but, buy, rat, ray, rub, rut, rya, tab, tar, tau, try, tub, urb, uta, yar. | |
-5 letters: ab, ar, at, ay, ba, by, ta, ut, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-r-r-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: tributary. | |
+3 letters: rubythroat. | |
+4 letters: irrefutably, objurgatory, rubythroats, subcontrary, subliterary, subtreasury. | |
+5 letters: antiburglary, distributary, masturbatory, subsecretary. | |
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