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noun 
  1. Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, pigs and chickens.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: mest
  • French: fumier
  • German: Mist
  • Italian: letame , stallatico
verb (manur, es)
  1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
  2. to apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver)
Translations: 
  • Dutch: bemesten
  • Spanish: abonar, estercolar
Etymology: Middle English manuren "to manure", from Old French manovrer (whence also English maneuver), from vulgar Latin
  • manuoperare "work by hand", from Latin manus, manu "by hand" + operari "to work".


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