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sharn.

The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.

    Scotland · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English schern, from Old English sċearn (“sharn, dung, muck, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker- (“dung, manure”). Cognate with North Frisian skern (“dung, manure”), Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic skarn (“dung”), German Harn (“urine”). Doublet of skarn.

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