1436 Rolls of Parl. IV. 500/1 Fermours and other men that usyn menuryng of lond.

1475 in T. Thomson Acts Lords Auditors (1839) 39/1 The wrangwis occupation & manuring of four oxgang of land.

1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Liij Parte of them may be put to tylth manuring and habitacion.

1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) Pref. Sundry of our rurall gentlemen are as well acquainted with the civill dealing, conversing, and practise of citties, as many Kockneis with the manuring of lands, and affayres of the countrey.

a1628 F. Greville Cælica Lx, in Certaine Learned & Elegant Wks. (1633) 205 To the dead tree what doth boot, The silly mans manuring paine?

1646 E. Buckler Midnights Medit. of Death ii. v. sig. H Ground that doth require So much manuring sure is full of weeds.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 628 Yon flourie Arbors, yonder Allies green..That mock our scant manuring . View more context for this quotation

1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iii. 110 Almost every family have all the necessaries of life of their own manuring and feeding.

1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant iii. i. 228 Without any other Manuring, than the burning.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. viii. f. 109^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Such a profitable sweetenesse is..theyr fleece, such necessity in their flesh, & so great a benefite in y^e manuring of barraine soyle with their dung & pisse, that their superfluous numbers are the better borne withall.

1708 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) 352 Frankfold is where the Lord hath benefit of folding his Tenants Sheep within his Manor for the manuring of his Land.

1787 T. Jefferson Let. 11 Apr. in Papers (1955) XI. 284 The leases are either during pleasure, or for three, six, or nine years, which does not give the farmer time to repay himself for the expensive operation of well manuring.

1858 De Bow's Rev. Mar. 195 The exhaustion of the cotton culture involves the necessity of repairing the soil by continual manurings, the expense of which all cultivators cannot afford.

1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 216 In every system of manuring, the chemical composition of the manure is that which constitutes its agricultural importance.

1903 Agric. Jrnl. Cape Good Hope Nov. 547 These heuveltjes never need manuring and their originating cause is not as yet explained.

1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xxi. 408 Manuring of any kind reduces the proportion of weeds, moss, and burn.

1971 Arable Farmer Feb. 64/2 Cereal growers should treat the phosphate manuring of barley as a means of maintaining the available nutrient contents in the soil.

1990 Country Life 24 May 143/1 Single digging is practised but with a variety of organic and inorganic manuring systems.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 80 Couer it eyther with olde doung, or with the newest of any other kynde of manuryng.

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) iv. ii. 493 Because Turneps, Nauets, and Fetches are enrichers, and (as it were) manurings of the ground.

1639 T. Heywood Londini Status Pacatus sig. A4^v The river it selfe by sundry Inundations watereth the whole Land of Ægypt, leaving behind it a slime, or moist Clay, which serveth for a marle or manuring, to make the soyle more fertill.

1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) xiii Couldn't grow cabbages without mannering.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi vi. §2. 208 When their Nilus overflowed, or when it first began to..diffuse an ample portion of manuring bountie into the lap of the land.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 23 The manuring hand of the Tiller.

a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1895) I. ii. 218 Chaunging..thys shyre from a wyldernes of savage beastes to the freedome of manurynge husbandry.

1835 R. Mant Brit. Months I. iii. 89 The earth is hid below A mantle of manuring snow.

1849 J. F. W. Johnston Exper. Agric. 97 It may not be the same..with other manuring substances.