dungmere

plural dungmeres

1. A pit or pile where dung is mixed with other organic material to produce manure for fertilizer.

   It seems Musaliar predicted that 'the gold chain would be retrieved tomorrow from the dungmere'.

   2001, Malayalam Literary Survey - Volume 23, page 57

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   By means of this Act farmers are helped in carrying out a good many improvement, such as transforming his property into irrigable land, well-prospecting, purchase and installation of pumps for water elevation, construction of reservoirs, electrification, erection of buildings for agricultural exploitation (hen-houses, stables, barns, hogsties, etc.), new plantations, stockfeed silos, dungmeres, land-supporting, etc.

   1950, Información comercial española - Issues 203-208, page 981

   The present invention overcomes these disadvantages and relates to a method of conveying manure from a stable via a dungmere to a storage or loading site.

   1967, Nils Einar Andersson, Method of and apparatus for conveying manure from stable gutters: US Patent 3,319,896