manure
pronunciation
How to pronounce manure in British English:
UK [məˈnjʊə(r)]
How to pronounce manure in American English:
US [məˈnʊr]
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- Noun:
- any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material
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- Verb:
- spread manure, as for fertilization
Word Origin
- manure
- manure: see manoeuvre
- manure (v.)
- 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.
- manure (n.)
- "dung or compost used as fertilizer," 1540s, see manure (v.).
Example
- 1. The air smelled of alfalfa and manure .
- 2. In the village of brod , locals still burn manure for fuel .
- 3. They could also get precious manure to fertilise the fields .
- 4. It will also reduce waste and odours , and produce a valuable organic fertiliser that is safer than raw manure .
- 5. That is good news for farmers and even better for farms because less nitrogen-rich manure pours out to poison fields and pollute rivers .