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Turves

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  1. 1
    A village in Whittlesey parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL3396).
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  1. 1
    plural of turf (“piece of sod”) form-of, plural

    ""It's an old custom the people had when they bought and sold land. They used to cut out a clod and hand it over to the buyer, and you weren't lawfully seised of your land - it didn't really belong to you - till the other fellow had actually given you a piece of it - like this." He held out the turves."

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