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

We gathered up the dung from the night before and hauled it outside.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

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

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 Ideal Commonwealths by Sir Saint Thomas More

Those who submitted, were by the mutineers styled dungs, i.e. dunghills.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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