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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To manure, as a field, by allowing live stock to graze upon it.
  • noun The dung or manure left on land where live stock has been fed. Also teathe.
  • noun Strong grass growing round the dung of cattle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Scot. To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
  • noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. Dung, or droppings of cattle.
  • noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. The luxuriant grass growing about the droppings of cattle in a pasture.
  • 3d pers. sing. pres. of ta, to take.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Scotland The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
  • noun Scotland A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
  • noun Scotland Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.
  • verb Scotland To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Etymologies

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From Middle English tath, from Old Norse tað ("manure"), from Proto-Germanic *tadan (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic tað ("manure, dung"), Swedish dialectal tad ("manure, dung").

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja ("to manure"), from Proto-Germanic *tadjanan (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic teðja ("to dung, manure"), Norwegian tedja ("to dung"), German zetten ("to let fall in small pieces, let crumble").

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same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. bhadr
  2. bhikkhuno
  3. bhvita
  4. citta
  5. dhammassa
  6. jhpeti
  7. labbhati
  8. nibbindat
  9. nigacchati
  10. pahn
  11. pubbe
  12. sammdi
  13. tena
  14. tesa
  15. thnamiddha
  16. uat
  17. vicikicchya
  18. vicikicchà-sampayutta
  19. vimutta
  20. vutta
  21. yath
  22. yehi
  23. yena

variants (1)

Variants

  1. ta

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  • chained_bear commented on the word tath

    According to the OED:

    A measure of land formerly used in Ireland, equal to 60 Irish acres. Also tate.

    Scottish and dialect. The dung of cattle, sheep, etc. left for manure on land on which they have been pastured. Also tathe, teath, taith.

    February 27, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the word tath

    But most definitely not teeth. :-)

    February 28, 2007