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English
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
tath (countable and uncountable, plural taths)
- (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
1804, Arthur Young, The Farmer's Calendar: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 .
- (UK, dialectal, agriculture, histortical 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.
Etymology 2
From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja (“to manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną (“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic teðja (“to dung, manure”), Norwegian tedja (“to dung”), German zetten (“to let fall in small pieces, let crumble”).
Verb
tath (third-person singular simple present taths, present participle tathing, simple past and past participle tathed)
- (UK, dialectal, agriculture, historical or archaic, Scotland) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
1808, Agricultural Surveys: Inverness:I would have no more ploughed than has been tathed the preceding year
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