turf-parers

Updated: May 25, 2025

Nibbled off by hares, trodden down by cattle, cut down by turf-parers, seeing hundreds of their brethren cut up and carried off in the turf-fuel, they are as gnarled and stubbed near the ground as an old thorn-bush in a pasture.

Charles Kingsley - Prose Idylls, New and Old