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Grammar : Noun
Spell : muh-noo r, -nyoo r
Phonetic Transcription : məˈnʊər, -ˈnyʊər

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Définition of manure

Origin :
  • c.1400, "to cultivate land," also "to hold property," from Anglo-French meynoverer, Old French manouvrer "to work with the hands, cultivate; carry out; make, produce," from Medieval Latin manuoperare (see maneuver (n.)). Sense of "work the earth" led to "put dung on the soil" (1590s) and to the current noun meaning "dung spread as fertilizer," which is first attested 1540s. Until late 18c., however, the verb still was used in a figurative sense of "to cultivate the mind, train the mental powers."
  • It is ... his own painfull study ... that manures and improves his ministeriall gifts. [Milton, 1641]
  • Related: Manured; manuring.
  • noun fertilizer
Example sentences :
  • Do not manure the ground for golden or variegated leaved shrubs.
  • Extract from : « The Mayflower, January, 1905 » by Various
  • Some use tobacco stems as a mulch about Asters instead of manure.
  • Extract from : « The Mayflower, January, 1905 » by Various
  • The odor of manure is no doubt pleasant to a farm laborer, but it is unpleasant to us.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • Claude had quite a liking for manure, since it symbolises the world and its life.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • It is found in well manured gardens and fields, or about manure piles.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • This species, as the name suggests, is found on manure or manured grounds.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • For who is able to manure an whole Orchard plot, if it be barren?
  • Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson
  • Growers do not all follow the same method of fermenting or composting the manure.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • The soil and manure do not constitute the whole cause of the plants and animals.
  • Extract from : « Mind and Motion and Monism » by George John Romanes
  • Let us, therefore, mercifully leave them to manure their dead roses in peace.
  • Extract from : « The Task of Social Hygiene » by Havelock Ellis

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