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

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