stercorationn.
/stəːkəˈreɪʃən/ 1. The action or an act of manuring with dung.
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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
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke ii. i. 103 What..maketh the earth fatte..but a certaine stercoration, and spreading of dung and of urine which commeth from cattle?
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §595 The first and most Ordinary Helpe is Stercoration.
1696 J. Evelyn Let. 28 Oct. in Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 364 They took great care indeed of their vines and olives, stercorations, ingraftings.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 121 A Field might be sown every year; if we restor'd to it by Stercoration, what we take from it in the Harvest.
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 23 When there was a god Sterquilinius, an agricultural poet might be allowed to sing of stercoration.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [noun] > dung
sharnc825
thostc1000
dungOE
dirta1300
croteysa1425
lessesa1425
grotesc1450
pillc1450
fumishing1527
trattles1547
fiants1575
dunging1582
dropping1596
soil1607
soiling1610
stercoration1694
pellet1884
mire1922
pat1937
scat1950
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > dunging > dung
dungOE
muckc1268
dunging?1440
fimea1475
fulyiec1480
tath1492
soil1607
street soil1607
dung-water1608
soiling1610
mucking1611
short dung, manure, muck1618
folding1626
muck water1626
stable manure1629
long dung1658
spit-dunga1671
stercoration1694
street dirt1694
horse-litter1721
pot-dunga1722
sock1790
street manure1793
police manure1825
fold-manure1829
slurry1965
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. lxvii Do you call this..Excrement, Stercoration, Sir-reverence, Ordure?
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vii. 26 When the Saliva and Ferment of the Stomach have served for Stercoration to it.
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1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. App. 101/1 Another..publickly Held-forth in one of his late Stercorations, that [etc.].
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