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Definition of Dunghills
1. dunghill [n] - See also: dunghill
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunghills
Literary usage of Dunghills
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1884)
"But it is better not to have Jacques and dunghills uncared for. To conclude this
chapter, I myself, a person seemingly of a weakly stamen and a ..."
2. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White, George Christopher Davies (1890)
"Besides insects, it is very fond of flesh ; for it frequently picks bones on
dunghills : it is a vast admirer of suet, and haunts butchers' shops. ..."
3. Georgical Essays by Alexander Hunter (1803)
"Probably a crop of vetches might be mown for hay early enough to produce a crop
of this grain after it. 59. On making Compost dunghills with ..."
4. A New System of Cultivation, Without Lime, Or Dung, Or Summer Fallows, as by Alexander Beatson (1820)
"... Manure—Should be well pulverized and incorporated with the Soil—Remarks on
the prodigal waste of Straw in dunghills—On the Import of foreign Grain, ..."
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