manurage
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From manure (verb) + -age.[1]
Noun
[edit]manurage (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Cultivation of land.
- 1602, William Warner, “The Third Booke. Chapter XIIII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 63:
- Novv, of the Conquerour, this Iſle had Brutaine vnto name, / And vvith his Troians Brute began manurage of the ſame.
References
[edit]- ^ “manurage, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2023.
Further reading
[edit]- “manurage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.