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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
manure .
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Examples
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-- The ground having been first well trenched and manured, that is, from sixty to seventy maunds of manure given to the acre, the seeds are, when ripe, to be removed from the capsules, and immediately sown to the depth of one inch, and very close, in drills 8 to 10 inches apart from each other.
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The hot air was redolent with the pungent perfumes of low tide coming from the piles of oysters, an indescribably fundamental smell—luscious, fresh—in rough comparison, thought Jon, not so different from other strong and lovely earth smells, like cut grass, or freshly manured farm fields.
Working Title: "Third Persons" Glenn Klopfenstein 2011
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He showed us another grown the traditional way, manured by cattle and burned off by fire.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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If you what to see the Soul of the BBC don ` t look at its current affairs look with your peripheral vision at the well manured nooks and cranny.
The Labour ..sorry..Dinner Party Newmania 2007
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If you what to see the Soul of the BBC don ` t look at its current affairs look with your peripheral vision at the well manured nooks and cranny.
Archive 2007-09-09 Newmania 2007
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Their cattle, horses, donkeys and flocks of turkeys grazed it, and they manured their domestic orchards and gardens from the farmyard.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The grass is well trodden and manured with crusty cowpats.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The soil in these fields, because it wasn't manured, quickly became depleted, forcing the Iroquois to relocate their villages to nearby areas.
Think Globally, Eat Locally – A Book Review in Three Parts 2007
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Their cattle, horses, donkeys and flocks of turkeys grazed it, and they manured their domestic orchards and gardens from the farmyard.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The grass is well trodden and manured with crusty cowpats.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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