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manure

  • verb
  • ma·nure
  • /məˈnjʊə/

To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

Example

“The farmer manured his fallow field.”

Other meanings

  1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

Related words

  • manurer
  • overmanure
  • remanure
  • manurable

Word history

From Latin "manus" (manū).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “manure” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.