stercoratev.
/ˈstəːkəreɪt/ transitive. To manure or dung.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > dung
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Stercorat, to empt dung.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ii4v If it be..transplanted into a soyl well stercorated.
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 112 The Houses whose pavements are thus stercorated, are good against the Plague.
1672 G. Thomson Let. to H. Stubbe 17 Those Baconical Ignoramus's, if they catch this Brazen-face within their Precincts, will..Stercorate such a durty person, that he may fructifie the better hereafter.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Stercorated, dunged, manured with Dung.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 76 It savoured of the earth..to have a man's mind always grovelling in mould, stercorated or unstercorated.
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