• Thumbnail for Peat
    Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs...
    76 KB (8,311 words) - 15:12, 11 September 2024
  • In sports (especially in North America), a three-peat is winning three consecutive championships or tournaments. The term, a portmanteau of the words three...
    97 KB (7,083 words) - 14:33, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bog
    Bog (redirect from Peat bog)
    A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four...
    35 KB (3,860 words) - 17:58, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for KPMG
    "KPMG" stands for "Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler". The initialism was chosen when KMG (Klynveld Main Goerdeler) merged with Peat Marwick in 1987. The firm...
    130 KB (13,210 words) - 21:25, 12 September 2024
  • Look up Peat or peat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Peat is an accumulation of decayed vegetation matter. Peat may also refer to: Peat (surname)...
    359 bytes (78 words) - 08:37, 16 November 2021
  • Peat is an English and Scottish patronymic surname. People with the name Peat include: Andrus Peat (born 1993), American football player Arthur Peat (1940–2012)...
    2 KB (226 words) - 11:52, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peat and Diesel
    Peat and Diesel are a three-piece band from Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, comprising Calum “Boydie” MacLeod, Innes Scott and Uilly Macleod...
    5 KB (293 words) - 12:25, 14 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Andrus Peat
    Andrus Jamerson Peat (born November 4, 1993) is an American professional football offensive tackle for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League...
    14 KB (1,081 words) - 03:25, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sphagnum
    Sphagnum (redirect from Peat moss)
    bog moss and quacker moss (although that term is also sometimes used for peat). Accumulations of Sphagnum can store water, since both living and dead plants...
    36 KB (4,219 words) - 18:17, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coir
    Coir (redirect from Coco peat)
    The name coco peat may refer either to coir or the pith or a mixture, as both have good water-retaining properties as a substitute for peat. The name coir...
    31 KB (3,640 words) - 07:54, 30 July 2024
  • Marion Todd Peat Sr. (born May 20, 1964) is an American former professional football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). He played...
    4 KB (216 words) - 07:20, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Briquette
    Briquette (redirect from Peat briquette)
    other combustible biomass material (e.g. charcoal, sawdust, wood chips, peat, or paper) used for fuel and kindling to start a fire. The term is a diminutive...
    18 KB (2,074 words) - 02:37, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Barclay Peat
    Sir William Barclay Peat CVO (15 February 1852 – 24 January 1936) was an accountant and one of the founders of KPMG. Peat born in Forebank, St Cyrus,...
    2 KB (225 words) - 12:33, 17 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Peat in Finland
    Finland is one of the last countries in the world still burning peat. Peat has high global warming emissions and environmental concerns. It can be compared...
    25 KB (3,099 words) - 18:14, 5 August 2024
  • Peat Wax is a dark waxy substance extracted from peat using organic solvents. It is very similar to the coal derived Montan wax and therefore has similar...
    608 bytes (83 words) - 08:17, 18 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for Peatland
    soils consist of organic matter from decaying plants, forming layers of peat. Peatlands arise because of incomplete decomposition of organic matter, usually...
    59 KB (7,228 words) - 14:45, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amanda Peet
    Amanda Peet (redirect from Amanda Peat)
    Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American actress. She began her career with small parts on television before making her feature film debut in...
    46 KB (3,472 words) - 02:23, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peat Cutting Monday
    Peat Cutting Day is a public holiday in the Falkland Islands that is celebrated on the first Monday in October every year. Traditionally, Peat Cutting...
    3 KB (206 words) - 14:14, 11 May 2024
  • Stephen Boyd Peat (March 10, 1980 – September 12, 2024) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger. Between 2001 and 2005, he played four seasons...
    25 KB (2,067 words) - 02:03, 14 September 2024
  • Koa Peat (born January 20, 2007) is an American basketball player who currently attends Perry High School. He is a consensus five-star recruit and one...
    10 KB (737 words) - 03:40, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pinpeat
    Pinpeat (redirect from Pinn peat)
    formerly used as the premiere instrument in this ensemble, and vadya/ padya/ peat (វាទ្យ) referring to an ensemble of instruments. According to Sonankavei...
    23 KB (2,591 words) - 15:59, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steve Peat
    Steve Peat (born 17 June 1974 in Chapeltown, South Yorkshire), nicknamed "Sheffield Steel" or more commonly just "Peaty", is a British professional downhill...
    10 KB (786 words) - 09:03, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peat Inn
    Peat Inn is a hamlet in Fife, Scotland, around 7 miles (11 kilometres) southeast of Cupar on the B940 and 6 miles (10 kilometres) southwest of St Andrews...
    983 bytes (105 words) - 14:17, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peat swamp forest
    Peat swamp forests are tropical moist forests where waterlogged soil prevents dead leaves and wood from fully decomposing. Over time, this creates a thick...
    25 KB (3,300 words) - 03:33, 18 June 2024
  • Sir Michael Charles Gerrard Peat GCVO FCA (born 16 November 1949) is an English retired accountant and courtier. He was the Principal Private Secretary...
    5 KB (495 words) - 23:49, 15 July 2024
  • David Peat (22 March 1947 – 16 April 2012) was an award-winning Scottish documentary-maker, cinematographer and photographer. Peat was born in Glasgow...
    4 KB (375 words) - 04:07, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Private Peat
    Private Peat is a lost 1918 American silent biographical drama film directed by Edward José and written by and starring Harold R. Peat. It was produced...
    3 KB (170 words) - 11:12, 30 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blanket bog
    Blanket bog (redirect from Blanket peat)
    allowing peat to develop not only in wet hollows but over large expanses of undulating ground. The blanketing of the ground with a variable depth of peat gives...
    3 KB (426 words) - 21:06, 1 July 2024
  • Francis David Peat (born 18 April 1938 Waterloo, England – died 6 June 2017, Pari, Civitella Paganico, Italy) was a British holistic physicist and author...
    11 KB (1,317 words) - 01:32, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Moorland
    Moorland (redirect from Peat Moors)
    similar to heaths but are differentiated by having a covering of peat. On western moors, the peat layer may be several metres thick. Scottish "muirs" are generally...
    15 KB (1,746 words) - 00:09, 12 August 2024