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noun
The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, archaic, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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noun
A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, archaic, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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noun
Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, archaic, countable, dialectal, historical, uncountable
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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verb
To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, UK, archaic, dialectal, historical
Topics: agriculture, business, lifestyle
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History
From Middle English tath, from Old Norse tað (“manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadą (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic tað (“manure, dung”), dialectal Swedish tad (“manure, dung”).
From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja (“to manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“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”).
