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单词 compester
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compesterv.

Etymology: < Old French compeste-r = Old French composte-r = medieval Latin compostāre to dung land, < Old French compost : see compost n.1 (which had also the variant compest). The -er is apparently the French infintive ending.
Obsolete.
To dung, manure.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] > compost
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1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 122 a For kine and sheep to compester the land.
a1691 P. Ventris Rep. (1696) i. 18 Or those [beasts] which he takes to Compester his Land.
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