manurage en · NOUN
Etymology
From manure (verb) + -age.
Meanings
-
(obsolete, uncountable) Cultivation of land.
Novv, of the Conquerour, this Iſle had Brutaine vnto name, / And vvith his Troians Brute began manurage of the ſame.
1602, William Warner, “The Third Booke. Chapter XIIII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 63: