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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peat \Peat\, noun [Cf. {Pet} a fondling.] A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peat \Peat\, noun [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.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
peat
noun: partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "peat": alcohol, benzine, briquette, burnable, butane, carbon, charcoal, coal, coke, combustible, dope, ethane, ethanol, fireball, firing, flammable, flammable material, fuel, fuel additive, fuel dope, gas, gas carbon, gasoline, heptane, hexane, inflammable, inflammable material, isooctane, jet fuel, kerosene, methane, methanol, natural gas, octane, oil, paraffin, pentane, propane, propellant, rocket fuel, turf
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