Tath

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

(UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
2. (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
3. (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.
4. (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

Example Sentences

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 .

I would have no more ploughed than has been tathed the preceding year

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• tathed

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