dungmere
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dungmere (plural dungmeres)
- A pit or pile where dung is mixed with other organic material to produce manure for fertilizer.
- 1950, Información comercial española - Issues 203-208, page 981:
- By means of this Act farmers are helped in carrying out a good many improvement, such as transforming his property into irrigable land, well-prospecting, purchase and installation of pumps for water elevation, construction of reservoirs, electrification, erection of buildings for agricultural exploitation (hen-houses, stables, barns, hogsties, etc.), new plantations, stockfeed silos, dungmeres, land-supporting, etc.
- 1967, Nils Einar Andersson, Method of and apparatus for conveying manure from stable gutters: US Patent 3,319,896:
- The present invention overcomes these disadvantages and relates to a method of conveying manure from a stable via a dungmere to a storage or loading site.
- 2001, Malayalam Literary Survey - Volume 23, page 57:
- It seems Musaliar predicted that 'the gold chain would be retrieved tomorrow from the dungmere'.