noun.
A small person; a pet; -- sometimes used contemptuously.
noun.
A substance of vegetable origin, consisting of roots and fibers, moss, etc., in various stages of decomposition, and found, as a kind of turf or bog, usually in low situations, where it is always more or less saturated with water. It is often dried and used for fuel.
noun.
a bog containing peat; also, peat as it occurs in such places; peat moss.
noun.
Moss of the genus Sphagnum, which often grows abundantly in boggy or peaty places.
noun.
the reek or smoke of peat; hence, also, the peculiar flavor given to whisky by being distilled with peat as fuel.