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Word entry · 6 letters

manure

Best crossword clue

"Farm fertilizer"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /məˈnjʊə/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aemnruStarts with MEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. spread manure, as for fertilization

Word origin

From Middle English maynouren, manuren (“to supervise, toil”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman meinourer and Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver, or in French manœuvrer) from Vulgar Latin *manuoperare (“work by hand”), from Latin manū (“by hand”) + operārī (“to work”). Displaced native (in the plural) Old English mes.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Manure thyself then; to thyself be approved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
  • The farmer manured his fallow field.

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