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peatman en · NOUN

Etymology

From peat + -man.

Meanings

1. A man whose occupation is digging peat.
   • We hear of Adder dens, but detailed accounts of the discovery of one are very rare. Service (1902) records that a peatman, when levelling on an estate by the Solway, found in a hole in the ground, some 8 inches below the surface, 40 adders, 10 toads and a large number of asks (lizards). 1951, Malcolm Arthur Smith, The British Amphibians & Reptiles, page 258:

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