horse manure

collocation in English

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horse
noun
uk
/hɔːs/us
/hɔːrs/
a large animal with four legs that people ride on or use for carrying things or ...
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manure
noun[U]
uk
/məˈnjʊər/us
/məˈnʊr/
solid waste from animals, especially horses, that is spread on the land in order to make plants ...
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(Definition ofhorseandmanurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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These conditions they evidently get par excellence in collections ofhorsemanure.
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It is probably festooned with cobwebs, strewn with horse bags, and with an all-pervading air ofhorsemanure.
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The air is full of the pungent smell ofhorsemanurerather than the acrid stench of incineration.
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Apart from fertiliser,horsemanurecan be ground into a powder which can be used for moulds.
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Double-digging is accomplished by layering fertilizer (most traditionallyhorsemanure) onto the top-soil.
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She eventually is arrested for embezzlement after having a lot of hay andhorsemanuredumped on her.
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It will also eat dead earthworms andhorsemanure.
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The serpent may bring gifts of gold - but those gifts turn tohorsemanureat sunrise.
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Horsemanurewas commonplace in the battle and staging areas on several fronts, creating breeding grounds for disease-carrying insects.
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Horsemanurewas burned in the marketplace and in the streets as a remedy against the cholera, but it didn't help.
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Horsemanureleft on the streets also created a sanitation problem.
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The outer troughs were kept filled with 15 tonnes of freshhorsemanure, which gave off heat as it decomposed.
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Its larvae have been found in pig, cow andhorsemanure.
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Adult males mud-puddle and are attracted to cow andhorsemanure.
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The hole on the port side was sealed with a tarpaulin, cement andhorsemanure.
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This was despite the team's bikes having been stolen and dumped in a barn alongsidehorsemanurea week previously.
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They are then heated in a sealed earthenware pot for thirty days withhorsemanure(probably with a smouldering fire of dried manure).
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She believes it is good luck to step inhorsemanurebefore a race.
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Between the stacks of beams, which form two walls,horsemanureor other animal faeces mixed with straw is dumped and compacted.
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Her boiler tubes were leaking, and the engineering crew hit on the idea of puttinghorsemanurein the feedwater to stop the leaks.
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