dung

At the 170-acre vineyard, horses and cows graze in a paddock; their dung is used for fertilizer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Of particular concern are dung-feeding insects such as flies, dung beetles, and some butterflies.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2026

Men dig in flip‑flops through dense black earth, "cow dung", as a young girl sitting on full sacks calls it.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

“Powdered stone worked. So did lizard’s blood and crocodile dung, and pig’s teeth and dolphin’s genitalia and frog’s sperm,” as psychologist Irving Kirsch later explained it.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026

A fire would be lit and dried cow dung put in to burn.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

When it was gone, hot not before, the Wart knew certain dungs about it—dungs which he had not had time to notice while the boar was there.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

He seldom sat down, but strayed about with nervous movements, picking dungs up and setting them down without looking at them, walking to windows and looking out but seeing nothing.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

He is like a horse in a pasture, that eats up the grass and dungs it in requital.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Besides, we have heats of dungs; and of bellies and maws of living creatures, and of their bloods and bodies; and of hays and herbs laid up moist; of lime unquenched; and such like.

From New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

At this point Hazlitt reproduces in a footnote one of Scott’s historical quotations in “Ivanhoe.” flints and dungs.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin

The soil from which he bloomed was richly dunged.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018

And 'twas with justice too; did they not break down my black fig tree, which I had planted and dunged with my own hands?

From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes

Asparagus haulm should also be cut and carried off the ground, and the beds dunged.

From The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) by David Dickinson Mann

It is fixed by oxidation at 30° to 35° C., and dunged with cow-dung and chalk.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 by Various

Hast thou been digg'd about and dunged too, Will neither patience nor yet dressing do?

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

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

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

In respect to the beaver dunging in their houses, as some persons assert, it is quite wrong, as they always plunge into the water to do it.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by J. B. Tyrrell

A man with expense and infinite toil, By digging and dunging, ennobled his soil; There fruits of the best your taste did invite, And uniform order still courted the sight.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by William Ernst Browning

In dunging corn in the holes, put two in a hill on any kind of soil where corn will grow, and you will have a good crop.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie