manuring

manuring is the present participle and gerund of manure.

Meaning of manure

manure (third-person singular simple present manures, present participle manuring, simple past and past participle manured)

(archaic, literary) To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
- A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.1557 July 1, Virgil, “The Second Boke of Virgiles Aenæis”, in Henry [Howard, Earl] of Surrey, transl., edited by William Bolland, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aenaeis, Turned into English Meter...
To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
- The farmer manured his fallow field.

manuring (plural manurings)

An application of manure.
- When the clay is five or six feet or more below the surface, so that manures are liable to be washed down below the roots, three or four light manurings, one in January, another in March, another in June, and the last in August, are better than one or two heavy manurings.2008, Helen Warner, Florida Fruits and How to Raise Them, page 97

plural	manurings

What does manuring mean?: Manuring means an application of manure.
What is manuring the present participle and gerund of?: Manuring is the present participle and gerund of manure.
What part of speech is manuring?: Manuring is a noun.
What is the plural of manuring?: The plural of manuring is manurings.

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