Material, especially barnyard or stable dung, often with discarded animal bedding, used to fertilize soil.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: ma·nured, ma·nur·ing, ma·nures To fertilize (soil) by applying material such as barnyard dung.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English manuren, to cultivate land, from Anglo-Norman mainouverer, from Vulgar Latin *manoperre, to work with the hands : Latin man, ablative of manus, hand; see man-2 in Appendix I + Latin operr, to work; see op- in Appendix I.
m
-n
r
, -ny
oper
re, to work with the hands : Latin man
, to work; see op- in Appendix I.
