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# dunghill

«dunghill» in Mova's school dictionary: **a heap of animal dung and rotting waste kept outside a farm** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (dunghills)

### meaning for a pupil

A dunghill is a heap of animal dung and rotting waste kept outside a farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dunghill/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a heap of filth where something unwanted is thrown; in lessons a place of mess and bad smells

### examples

- The cow was thrown out upon a dunghill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dunghill/#x1)
- The farm cat slept on the warm dunghill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dunghill/#x2)
- The rubbish was piled up like a dunghill behind the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dunghill/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### In the corpora

- [Who raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the needy out of the dunghill;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2080/)
- [They that did feed on dainties are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.126/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dunghill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dunghill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.