Tath
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tath is a noun meaning (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
Meaning
(UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
More Meanings
- (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
- (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.
- (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
Example Sentences
I would have no more ploughed than has been tathed the preceding year
after the sheep have trod out a great quantity of stones, in feeding off turnips, to have them raked up clean, which I have known some farmers do, nor can the rake be used without taking some of the tathe, or dung, with them .
Word Forms
- taths
- tathe
- tathing
- tathed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include teathe, tattee, till, tatt, tathlum, treddle.
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