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tath.

The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.

    Scotland · UK · archaic · countable · dialectal · historical · uncountable
  2. A piece of ground dunged by livestock.

    Scotland · UK · archaic · countable · dialectal · historical · uncountable
  3. Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.

    Scotland · UK · archaic · countable · dialectal · historical · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English tath, from Old Norse tað (“manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadą (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic tað (“manure, dung”), dialectal Swedish tad (“manure, dung”).

verb
  1. To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it.

    Scotland · UK · archaic · dialectal · historical
Where this word comes from

From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja (“to manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic teðja (“to dung, manure”), Norwegian tedja (“to dung”), German zetten (“to let fall in small pieces, let crumble”).

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