turbary noun. ['tǝ:b(ǝ)ri] LME.
[Anglo-Norman turberie, Old French tourberie (medieval Latin turbaria), from tourbe TURF noun: see -ARY¹.]
1. (A tract of) land where peat may be dug for fuel; (a) peatbog, (a) peatmoss. Formerly also (rare), peat. LME.

2. Law. The right to dig peat for fuel on a common or on another person's land. M16.

Comb.:
turbary pig, turbary sheep (an animal of) a prehistoric breed of domesticated pig, sheep, first found in turbaries in Swiss neolithic lake-dwellings and sometimes identified with certain surviving breeds.

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