manure
IPA: mʌnˈʊr
noun
- Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
- Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not; fertiliser.
- (euphemistic) Rubbish; nonsense; bullshit.
verb
- To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
- To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
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Examples of "manure" in Sentences
- This is the purest horse manure.
- The species grows on plant material and manure.
- The farmer uses manure to make the soil fertile.
- Crucially, the manure is very high in microbes also.
- The manure was contained in boxes to protect it from the water.
- The remaining part of the body sliced into pieces and buried in manure.
- The cattle faced the side walls and backed on to a central manure passage.
- The manure originally belonged to the owners of the horses that dropped it.
- A mechanism moved the manure to the rear where it was distributed by paddles.
- The consequent lack of manure from stock let to the land's fertility declining.
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