manurage

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From manure (verb) +‎ -age.[1]

Noun[edit]

manurage (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Cultivation of land.
    • 1602, William Warner, “The Third Booke. Chapter XIIII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: [], 5th edition, London: [] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, [], →OCLC, page 63:
      Novv, of the Conquerour, this Iſle had Brutaine vnto name, / And vvith his Troians Brute began manurage of the ſame.

References[edit]

  1. ^ manurage, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2023.

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