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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Manuring, vbl. n. Also: -yng, manwring, -yng, manuiryng, manering. [ME. menuryng (1436), e.m.E. manuring, mannering.]

1. The occupation and use, farming, tillage, cultivation (of land).Also to take (waste land) into manuring, = into use or cultivation, to begin to cultivate.(1) 1475 Acta Aud. 39/1.
The wrangwis occupation & manuring of four oxgang of land 1479 Acta Conc. I. 37/1.
& for the wrangwis eting of the gers & hering & manuring of the samyn [mailing] 1480 Ib. 53/1.
Manuiryng 1482–3 Ib. II. cxix. 1485 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 318. 1492 Acta Conc. I. 208/2. 1493 Maxwell Mem. I. 204.
Manwring 1505–6 Peebles B. Rec. I. 33. 1533 Bell. Livy I. 250/21.
The feildis desert, bot ony garnisoun or manuring of landwart pepill 1549 Compl. 44/24.
The nobil Scipio … set his felicite on the manuring of the corne land & in the keping of bestialite 1558 Orkney & Shetl. Rec. I. 78. 1628 Peebles Gleanings 104. 1696 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds II. 752 (26 Feb.).
[He is] to herd walk till harrow and bear up good neighbourheid at all work nessisar for manering the said grownd(2) a1652 Dickson Psalms II. 165.
The Lord hath taken them into manuring, as a piece of land

2. The occupation, utilization, enjoyment (of a fishing). 1476 Acta Aud. 47/2.
The wrangwis occupation & manuring of the said fisching and withhaldin of the froitis therof fra him