well-compressed

Updated: June 19, 2025

For, instead of digging in the ordinary way, the men carefully cut down through what was not earth, but thick well-compressed black peat, each piece, about ten inches square and three or four thick, to be carefully laid up like so much open brickwork to drain and dry.

George Manville Fenn - Dick o' the Fens: A Tale of the Great East Swamp