English Explanatory Dictionary

tath

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

tath taths teathe tathe tathing tathed

Etymology

From Middle English tath, from Old Norse tað (“manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadą (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic tað (“manure, dung”), dialectal Swedish tad (“manure, dung”).

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