Devon. dial. [Cf. FAG sb.2] Dried turf or peat used as fuel; a piece of this.
1796. W. H. Marshall, W. England, II. 6. Towards the Mountains, Turf (provincially ‘Vags’) and Peat (provincially ‘Turf’).
1889. Portfolio, Jan., 11/2. In the winter he may turn many an honest penny by the sale of ‘vags.’
1895. G. Mortimer, Tales Moors, 224. You can cut as much vag—or peat, as you calls it up country—as you’m a mind to.
