turves
See also: Turves
English
Noun
turves
- plural of turf (piece of sod)
- 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
- "It's an old custom the people had when they bought and sold land. They used to cut out a clod and hand it over to the buyer, and you weren't lawfully seised of your land - it didn't really belong to you - till the other fellow had actually given you a piece of it - like this." He held out the turves.
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Alternative forms
- turfs
Anagrams
- Struve
Portuguese
Verb
turves
- second-person singular present subjunctive of turvar