turves

turves

1. plural of turf (“piece of sod”)
   • 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:

     "It's an old custom the people had when they bought and sold land. They used to cut out a clod and hand it over to the buyer, and you weren't lawfully seised of your land - it didn't really belong to you - till the other fellow had actually given you a piece of it - like this." He held out the turves.

• turfs

• Struve

turves

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of turvar