manure
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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”).
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manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)
- To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
- To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
- The farmer manured up his fallow field.
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to cultivate by manual labor
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to apply manure
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- to fertilize
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manure (countable and uncountable; plural manures)
- 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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excrement
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