dung
noun
excrement, especially of animals; manure.
dunging
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present participleof dung.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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And so I ought," answered Sancho; "for some of your worship's wisdom must needs stick to me; as dry and barren soil, by well dunging and digging, comes at last to bear good fruit.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
In respect to the beavers dunging in their houses, as some persons assert, it is quite wrong, as they always plunge into water to do it.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by William Harvey
His digging about it, and dunging of it, is to show his willingness to apply gospel helps to this barren professor, if haply he may be fruitful.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
But as for our Monkish Antiquaries, and the Monastick Learning, it seems to be reserv'd for the Improvement of those, whose Minds, like barren Soils, will never bear without dunging.
From An Essay on Criticism by John Oldmixon
The exhibit consists of a Universal calender, drying machines, patent creasing, measuring, and marking machines, and apparatus for bleaching, washing, chloring, scouring, soaping, dunging, and dyeing woven fabrics.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
