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Manure
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- 1 Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens. countable, uncountable
"1985, Biff Tannen (portrayed by Thomas F. Wilson), Back to the Future. I hate manure!"
- 2 any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material wordnet
- 3 Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser. broadly, countable, uncountable
"vegetable manure [= green manure]"
- 4 Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit. countable, euphemistic, uncountable
"“You know the police think I killed Marge, don't you?” “What a load of manure! I couldn't believe it when I read the paper.”"
- 1 To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. archaic, literary
"A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure."
- 2 spread manure, as for fertilization wordnet
- 3 To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
"The farmer manured his fallow field."
Etymology
From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”).
From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”).
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