turbary

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TUR'BARY, noun [from turf; Latinized, turbaria.] 1. In law, a right of digging turf on another man's land. Common of turbary is the liberty which a tenant enjoys of digging turf on the lord's waste. 2. The place where turf is dug.
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