muck-spreadingn.
/ˈmʌkˌsprɛdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈməkˌsprɛdɪŋ/ The action or activity of distributing manure over farmland.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging
dungingOE
tathingc1440
muckingc1450
stercoration1605
soiling1607
muck-spreading1863
1863 J. B. Leno Female Labour 2 We are happy to be able to proclaim that the hiring of women for muck-spreading or the use of the spade has never become a national custom on this side of the Tweed.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 187/1 [Nottinghamshire] A farmer on being asked in Court when the event occurred, said, ‘It wor abaout three weeks afore muck spreading.’
1948 Brit. Birds 41 358 This is paralleled by the Faeroe farmers' belief that muck-spreading should be completed before the coming of the White Wagtail.
2000 Daily Tel. 11 Aug. 25/5 An urbanite [would] demand..no mud on the lanes, no cockerels crowing at dawn, and certainly no smell during muck-spreading.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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