Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
turf
IPA transcription: [t'ɝf]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
turf, sod, sward, greensward
Meaning:
surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
turf
Meaning:
cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
Usage examples
My turf, though Provencal, shall be always green.
Dead and dying they lay strewn for fifty feet along the turf.
Under that he got some turf for his bed, and there he lay as well as he could.
Under that he got some turf for his bed, and there he lay as well as he could.
Star's hoofs pounded upon the soft turf, then his body emerged from the shadows.
The turf, hard and dry, only showed the tracks of a horse when going in a gallop.
They are great rounded hills, covered with close, thick turf, like a velvet carpet.
"Mr. Trentham, I--I can't bowl," whispered Mr. Sapsworth to me as we moved across the turf.
They saw a giant white man leap from the branches of a tree to the turf and race rapidly toward the plane.
There was no turf, and the loose mould was baked hard and smooth, evidently by the sole of a boot or shoe.