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duned | dunged |

As an adjective duned

is (geology) featuring or formed into dunes.

As a verb dunged is

(dung).

duned

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (geology) Featuring or formed into dunes.
  • * 1912 , William Mumford Gregory, Geological report on Arenac County , Issue 11, page 76,
    • The banks are duned and are nearly 40 feet above the lake.
  • * 1971 , , The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , Volume 22, page 153,
    • These are related to positioning of the meter array on the form of the duned bed.
  • * 1975 , Joel S. Watkins, Michael L. Bottino, Marie Morisawa, Our Geological Environment , page 226,
    • Duned coasts appear where sand accumulates on a beach faster than the waves can move the material alongshore.

    dunged

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dung)

    • Anagrams

    *

    dung

    English

    (wikipedia dung)

    Etymology 1

    (etyl), from (etyl).

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
  • * 1605 , , act III, scene iv, line 129
    • Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool
  • * 1611 , Authorized King James Version , Malachi 2:3
    • Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung' upon your faces, even the ' dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
  • * 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , volume 4, page 496
    • The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.
  • (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
    • Derived terms
    * dung beetle * dung fly * dung fork * dunghill * dungy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fertilize with dung.
    • (Dryden)
  • (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant.
  • To void excrement.

    • Etymology 2

    See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)

    • Etymology 3

    unknown

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (colloquial) To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out.
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