Definition of Dunghills

1. Noun. (plural of dunghill) ¹

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Definition of Dunghills

1. dunghill [n] - See also: dunghill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunghills

dungeon master
dungeon masters
dungeoned
dungeoneer
dungeoneers
dungeonesque
dungeoning
dungeonlike
dungeonous
dungeons
dungfork
dungforks
dungheap
dungheaps
dunghill
dunghills (current term)
dungier
dungiest
dunging
dunglike
dungmere
dungmeres
dungmixen
dungmixens
dungs
dungy
dungyard
dungyards
dunite
dunites

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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