dung

The other investigated fossilized dung, known scientifically as coprolites.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

In “The Getaway”—filmed twice for the big screen—Doc and Carol McCoy conclude their escape hiding in caves, then a hut made of dung, before they end up in the infernal domain of El Rey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2026

There are reports that suggest some regions in India are witnessing a spike in timber sales, while others see increased sales of cow dung cakes - both biomass fuels.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

Every passing vehicle had to be sprayed with a chemical solution to stop the spread of the virus, which can remain up to six months in cow dung.

From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026

First a dung cart rolled down the block, pulled by a scrawny brown horse that kept twitching its muscles to shoo the flies off its back.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

When the tongues were first taken in to be sliced, two round buffalo dungs together with a ball of sweetgrass were given to the man and woman.

From The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler

You know, my friends, that if we wants to get a good crop of anything we dungs the ground.

From The Parish Clerk by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

They show a thoroughness, a care and an art in the mixing of the various animal dungs, with straw, woodsearth and cinders, which few modern gardeners could equal.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Fairfax Harrison

The soil from which he bloomed was richly dunged.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 21, 2018

I digged about it, I dunged it; I gained time, and supplied it with means; but I laboured herein in vain, and spent my strength for nought, and in vain!

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

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

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

As the King of Cambaya was one day riding in state, an unlucky kite dunged upon his royal head.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

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

And thus much for the fashion, digging, and dunging of gardens.

From The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham

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

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

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