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• Part of the fleece was caked with manure, so we had to clean it.From the entry caked
• Shell sand is a useful manure for clay soils, heavy loams, and newly reclaimed bogs.From the entry shell sand
• Dung beetles clear away 80 percent of the cow manure in the whole of Texas.2014, Emma Carlson Berne, Dung Beetles: Stronger than Ten Men! (Animal Superpowers), New York, N.Y.: PowerKiDS Press, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry dung beetle
• A soft odor of chicken scratch, mash, and manure always permeated the air when you approached.2008, Richard Dwight Apgar, Tough Shit, Eliot: A Yank's Tale, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry chicken scratch
• In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry.2004, W. H. Rulkens, “11: Overview of resource recovery techmologies for biowaste”, in Piet Lens, B. Hamelers, Harry Hoitink, Werner…. From the entry slurry
• Urinal losses were determined primarily by the quantity of water which passed through the manure layer.1975, G. D. Bubenzer, J. C. Converse, Impact of Freezing and Thawing Soil Conditions on the Movement of Nutrients by Water from Rural Lands. From the entry urinal
• Others, having no grain, made nauseating, poisonous concoctions of weeds, treebark, and even clay and manure.1971, Harold Henry Fisher, The famine in Soviet Russia, 1919-1923. From the entry treebark
• The backyard, of necessity, became a farm-like area full of hay, manure, and broken carriage parts.1968, Marvin Tameanko, “To Buy or to Build”, in House and Home, Toronto, Ont.: General Publishing Co. Limited, page 32, column 1. From the entry farm-like
• There are, broadly speaking, two classes of green manures, viz.:—Leguminous and others.1901 June 21, Alex Pardy, “Green Manuring”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 6, page 242. From the entry green manure
• The rich manure of the herd dankened the wind.2011, James Howerton, The Cold Days, page 196. From the entry danken
• Cesspits were cleaned out by a worker known as a ‘gong-fermer’, who carted the sewage off to manure the vegetable plot.2011, Brian Williams, Life in a Medieval Castle, Pitkin Publishing, "Castle Home". From the entry gong-fermer
• Black Kow composted manure is a tomato-phile favorite.2010 October 9, Barbara Marshall, “It’s The Perfect Time To Plant Tomatoes”, in The Palm Beach Post, volume 41, number 15, page 3F. From the entry tomato-phile
• You can take what you want from these two hotboxes, because I'm only going to throw them out as manure.2006, The Memoirs of John Tomczyk, Among Unknown Hostages, page 97. From the entry hotbox
• She was busy carrying manure and planting crops.2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 183. From the entry Hsien-ning
• You can try to dig in manure, which will lighten the soil, but then you will raise your border.2002 January 24, Kostas Kavoussanakis, “Re: Making a new border”, in uk.rec.gardening (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry chrysanthema
• Animal products like blood, urine, manure, casein and animal glue have been used through the centuries to stabilise loam.2000, Gernot Minke, Earth Construction Handbook: The Building Material Earth in Modern Architecture, WIT Press, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry oxblood
• When the structure of sticks has been set up the mixture of earth and manure is spread on it by hand.1997, Paul Oliver, Encyclopedia of the Vernacular Architecture of the World: Cultures and habitats. From the entry embira
• Most Chinese seed-drills sow not only seed but also manure.1984, Joseph Needham, Francesca Bray, Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 6, Part 2, page 270. From the entry seed drill
• The four pens included a 9-ft-wide manure washway which ran the length of the feed bunk and was flushed daily.1968, California Agriculture - Volume 22, page 6. From the entry washway
• Stable manure was used to repair road surfaces and any Kingstonian abroad at night risked life and limb.1961, Gisela Eisner, Jamaica, 1830–1930: A Study in Economic Growth, page 177. From the entry Kingstonian
• Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […]…. From the entry procure
• If the rains were more abundant we should have rich pastures, plenty of manure, and a totally different agrarian rotation.1919, Robert Franz Foerster, The Italian Emigration of Our Times, volume 20. From the entry graniculture
• Several studies have been carried out on application of fertilizers and manures for improving yield of pearl millet, moong bean, moth bean, sesame, sunflower, etc.2023, Natural Resource Management in the Thar Desert Region of Rajasthan, Springer International Publishing, page 91. From the entry moong bean
• Richer farmers stall-feed their cattle in zero-grazing units, which facilitiates the collection and storage of manure and ensures that the manure remains on the farm.2000, F. N. Muchena, Thea Hilhorst, Nutrients on the Move, page Q-131. From the entry stall-feed
• The lipcurl or horse laugh (flehmen in German) may occur in response to the smell of strange manure or to a variety of other odors.1980, Proceedings. From the entry lipcurl
• Another test attack on the winter mud and manure problem is the installation of two four-hundred-foot washways immediately behind the feed bunks.1967, The Farm Quarterly - Volume 22, page 141. From the entry washway
• Manure is not a problem at The Gables, for a local farmer comes weekly, foreloads it by tractor into a trailer and takes it away.1961, Poultry Farmer. From the entry foreload
• This treatment is supplemented by about half a ton of artificial manure, largely made up of a mixture of superphosphate and some nitrogenous manure.1923, The Agricultural Gazette and Modern Farming, volume 98, page 190. From the entry sprat
• To begin with “Le Meulage,” the arranging of the rows is all done by hand, well-rotted stable manure procured from barracks being used.1914, Mrs. C[harles] W[illiam] Earle [i.e., Theresa Earle]; Ethel Case, “June”, in Pot-pourri Mixed by Two, London: Smith, Elder & Co.…. From the entry untaken advantage of
• One can imagine Borlaugian Wizards considering manure and other natural soil inputs, and Vogtian Prophets willing to use chemicals as a supplement to good soil practice.2018 January 23, Charles C. Mann, “Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People?”, in The Atlantic. From the entry Vogtian
• The effect of fertilizers on the diversity of enchytraeids has not been studied but occurrence of high abundance of enchytraeids after organic manure application has been noted.1999, M. V. Reddy, Management of Tropical Agroecosystems and the Beneficial Soil Biota, page 218. From the entry enchytraeid
• For millennia, right up until less than one hundred years ago, horses were an essential part of daily life—the smell of horse manure an undercurrent of every human odourscape.1999, Jonica Newby, chapter 3, in The Animal Attraction: Humans and their Animal Companions, Sydney: ABC Books, page 79. From the entry odourscape
• The acidified manure is mixed up with a non-toxic biodegradable carrier oil with a boiling point far above that of water and a negligible solubility in water.1995, International Association on Water Quality, Water Quality International, '94 PT. 7, page 162. From the entry carrier oil
• The present invention overcomes these disadvantages and relates to a method of conveying manure from a stable via a dungmere to a storage or loading site.1967, Nils Einar Andersson, Method of and apparatus for conveying manure from stable gutters: US Patent 3,319,896. From the entry dungmere
• The more common practice is to scrape the solid manure into a konaki, a walled sledge or cart, and allow the liquid to discharge into a drain.1967, Ralph Du Faur, Dairy Farming for Profit, page 206. From the entry konaki
• Two packets of choice Russian Violet seed were then sown in friable soil, well sifted, and made rich with a bottom layer of old cow manure.1904, Sarah Warner Brooks, A Garden with House Attached, page 70. From the entry Russian violet
• He had developed a fertilizer; he called Texas Tea that involved fermenting dried cow and or buffalo manure in water barrels and pouring the liquid over the freshly planted crops.2004, Dave Stevens, My Western Roots, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry Texas tea
• To behold earth itself as compost (rather than a small section or heap of it) is to behold it in the condition of rottedness and manure, of waste and leavings.1980, Enid Rhodes Peschel, Medicine and literature, page 197. From the entry rottedness

Meaning of manure

1. verb To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
2. verb To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
3. noun Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.

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How do you use manure in a sentence?

Manure is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The farmer manured his fallow field.”

What is a short sentence with manure?

“The farmer manured his fallow field.”

What does manure mean?

Manure means to cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.