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TURF

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 414 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURF  , the

top or
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surface of earth when covered with grass, forming a coherent mass of
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mould or
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soil in which the roots of
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grasses and other
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plants are embedded . This is capable of being cut out in solid mat-like blocks, known by the same name . Similarly " peat " (q.v.) when cut in pieces for fuel or other purposes is also styled " turf." The
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term is applied widely to any stretch or sward of trimmed grass-
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land, and thus by metonymy, to horse-racing and all connected with it,from the owning and
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running of
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race-horses to betting . The word " turf " is
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common to Teutonic
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languages, cf . Du. turf, Ger . Torf,
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Dan . Mrs, &c . It has been connected with Skt. darbha, grass, so called from being matted or
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twisted together, darbh, to wind . The Teutonic word was adapted in Med .
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Lat., as turba (cf . Fr. tourbe, Ital. torba), whence was formed turbaria, turbary, the right of digging and cutting turf in common with the owner of the land .

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