1744 W. Ellis Mar. i. 14 They are made from the best, black, strong Moor-peat.
1890 Moor-peat, peat derived chiefly from varieties of sphagnum or moss.
1913 1 282 The author regards ‘the amount of soluble mineral matter in the peat’ as the only distinction between fen-peat and moor-peat which is ‘really fundamental’.