Noun a bag of cow manure fertilizers made from animal manures
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Verb
That’s a lot of mouths to feed and coats to brush and manure to shovel. Mary Carole Mccauley, baltimoresun.com, 17 Nov. 2020 At Heligan, the soil was manured, aerated, and assiduously double dug for centuries; plants must have been queuing at the gates. Charlotte Mendelson, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2019
Noun
Each cow drops an average of 65 pounds of manure daily.Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022 An ominous shot of an earthworm feasting on a large pile of fresh horse manure suggests trouble ahead. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022 Rather than extracting gas from the ground, renewable natural gas can be generated through biogas that is produced by organic waste from sources like cow manure at dairies and farms. Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2022 But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force. Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2022 On Monday, farmers in tractors blocked supermarket distribution centers and spread manure outside of officials’ homes in protest. Jack Wolfsohn, National Review, 8 July 2022 Even if the lagoons held, the manure would eventually be converted to fertilizer and sprayed on nearby fields, which some local residents worried would overload the river with phosphorus. Bruce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2022 The fascists valued literature and the arts: If biology was the soil of fascism, history and aesthetics were the manure. Dominic Green, WSJ, 24 June 2022 Highs: Efficient, inexpensive, can carry manure much more elegantly than the Civic. Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 27 May 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb
Middle English manouren, from Anglo-French mainouverer, meinourer to till (land), construct, create, from Medieval Latin manu operare to perform manual labor, from Latin manu by hand + operari to work — more at operate