Manure meaning

mə-no͝o'ər, -nyo͝o'-, no͝or', -nyo͝or'
The definition of manure is animal excrement that is used to fertilize.

Animal excrement that you spread around in your garden to fertilize the soil so the garden will grow better is an example of manure.

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The dung of livestock or poultry.
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Such dung, or other organic or chemical material, used to fertilize soil.
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To fertilize (soil) by applying material such as animal dung.
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To put manure on or into (soil)
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Organic substances, esp. animal excrement, put on or into the soil to fertilize it.
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To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
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To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).

The farmer manured his fallow field.

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Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
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Origin of manure

  • From Middle English manuren to cultivate land from Anglo-Norman mainouverer from Vulgar Latin manūoperāre to work with the hands Latin manū ablative of manus hand man-2 in Indo-European roots Latin operārī to work op- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Middle English manuren (“to manure"), from Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand"), from Latin manu + operari (“to work").
    From Wiktionary

Manure Sentence Examples

  • They actually had some horse manure boxed up and ready to ship.

  • Have manure put up in heaps and mixed with earth."

  • Although good crops may follow the application of lime, the latter is not a direct fertilizer or manure and is no substitute for such.

  • Its industrial establishments include factories for tobacco, cloth, matches, leather, artificial manure, besides breweries and distilleries.

  • Most of the nitrogen in the straw of the cereals, and a very large proportion of that of the much more highly nitrogenyielding crops, returns to the land as manure, for the benefit of future cereals and other crops.

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