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Manure vs Ordure - What's the difference?

manure | ordure |

As nouns the difference between manure and ordure

is that manure is animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens while ordure is excrement, dung.

As a verb manure

is to cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

manure

English

Verb

(manur)
  • To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
  • * Surrey
    • to whom we gave the strand for to manure
  • * John Donne
    • Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; / And with vain, outward things be no more moved.
  • To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver).
    • The farmer manured his fallow field.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The blood of English shall manure the ground.

    Derived terms

    * manurable

    See also

    * to fertilize

    Noun

  • Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.
  • * '>citation
  • Any fertilizing substance, whether of animal origin or not.
  • * Sir Humphry Davy
    • Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain. I have never made any experiment upon this manure ; but there is great reason to suppose it must contain saccharine matter; and this will account for its powerful effects.

    Derived terms

    * humanure

    See also

    * fertilizer * muck

    ordure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • excrement, dung
  • * 1988 ,
    • The bowels and bladder collapsed, sheets and mattress had to be burnt at the bottom of the back garden. The body, having vulgarly shed its ordures', now turned into an ' ordure itself.
  • * 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 99
    • Only Madame herself seeing Jacob out had about her that leer, that lewdness, that quake of the surface (visible in the eyes chiefly), which threatens to spill the whole bag of ordure , with difficulty held together, over the pavement.

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