Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to dung or manure; consisting of dung.
  • noun A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A sheltered place for storing dung.

Etymologies

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Latin stercorarium, from Latin stercorarius belonging to dung.

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  • A dung repository or compost heap.

    April 14, 2008

  • noun A sheltered place for storing dung.


    Some dung is sheltered not from wind or weather, but because it is very valuable dung, like bilby dung.

    October 22, 2021

  • You will never get any of it. Never!

    October 23, 2021