manure
noun
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
had manured
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past perfectof manure.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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At last, when, after the manner of men, they had manured their benefactor well, they consented to reap him.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
Even the herring which had manured the plot had been "specially selected and blessed."
From The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J.W. Robertson Scott
Across such a stream rode, one beautiful autumn-day, a young well-dressed man, towards a small field of rye, which the distant owner had manured by scraping off the surface, and burning it to ashes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various
Isak mowed his bits of meadow; there was little grass on them for all he had manured them well that spring.
From Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
It would be said that certain individuals had done all this, had deep ploughed, had manured, had kept a great head of valuable stock, had used every resource, and yet had suffered.
From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
