Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The addition of any substance to the soil to increase its fertility; fertilizing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.
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- verb Present participle of
manure .
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Examples
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P.S. -- Am I to suppose that you have abandoned the idea of manuring an acre of wheat for thirteen shillings?
Essays in Natural History and Agriculture Thomas Garnett 1838
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The tribes who still retain the semblance of independence are forced to perform all the labor of the fields, such as manuring the land, weeding, reaping, building, making dams and canals, and at the same time to support themselves.
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GMOs are a product of “industrial agriculture” where farmers try to gain the greatest productivity and provide the cheapest food possible without the laborious practices of manuring soils, planting, fertilizing, weeding and harvesting crops.
So What Passes for Food These Days? Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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GMOs are a product of “industrial agriculture” where farmers try to gain the greatest productivity and provide the cheapest food possible without the laborious practices of manuring soils, planting, fertilizing, weeding and harvesting crops.
Archive 2010-03-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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But clearing and green-manuring the rest of the area should get us off to a running start in the spring.
Get set, go Allan Jenkins 2010
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GMOs are a product of “industrial agriculture” where farmers try to gain the greatest productivity and provide the cheapest food possible without the laborious practices of manuring soils, planting, fertilizing, weeding and harvesting crops.
Archive 2010-03-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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GMOs are a product of “industrial agriculture” where farmers try to gain the greatest productivity and provide the cheapest food possible without the laborious practices of manuring soils, planting, fertilizing, weeding and harvesting crops.
So What Passes for Food These Days? Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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The secret, we found, lay in the heavy trampling and manuring of the ground during the pony sales.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The secret, we found, lay in the heavy trampling and manuring of the ground during the pony sales.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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They participated in both paid and subsistence agricultural work: stone-picking, planting, manuring, weeding, and harvesting.
Gutenber-e Help Page 2005
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