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

Government programmes have rapidly expanded LPG use for cooking in India, replacing kerosene and traditional biomass like firewood and dung.

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

Now, if you saw this man, with his coveralls and his cow dung, you’d figure he was not a worthy customer.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And so I ought," answered Sancho; "for some of your worship's wisdom must needs stick to me; as dry and barren soil, by well dunging and digging, comes at last to bear good fruit.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

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

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