Dictionary Entry
turf
turf is a 4-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat; sward; sod.
- 2noun
Peat, especially when prepared for fuel. See Peat.
- 3noun
Race course; horse racing; -- preceded by the.
- 4transitive verb
To cover with turf or sod; as, to turf a bank, of the border of a terrace.
- 5noun
range of jurisdiction or influence
"a bureaucracy...chiefly concerned with turf...and protecting the retirement system"
- 6noun
the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own
- 7noun
surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
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- 8verb
cover (the ground) with a surface layer of grass or grass roots
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