Crossword-Solution: COMPOST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Compost | n. | A mixture; a compound. |
| Compost | n. | A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. |
| Compost | v. t. | To manure with compost. |
| Compost | v. t. | To mingle, as different fertilizing substances, in a mass where they will decompose and form into a compost. |
We have 29 clues for the answer “COMPOST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| MANMADE medium for plant growing | 1 answer |
| plant fertilizer | 1 answer |
| a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure | 1 answer |
| What eggshells, coffee filters and wine corks can be | 1 answer |
| Use for coffee grounds | 1 answer |
| Stuff in a heap | 1 answer |
| Soil renovator | 1 answer |
| Soil enhancer | 1 answer |
| Soil builder | 1 answer |
| Process table scraps | 1 answer |
| Organic farmer's fertilizer | 1 answer |
| Homemade fertilizer | 1 answer |
| Heap with skins | 1 answer |
| A mixture of decomposing plants for fertilising the soil | 1 answer |
| Chef's trash or gardener's treasure | 1 answer |
| Gardener's byproduct | 1 answer |
| Fertilizing mixture | 1 answer |
| Decomposed vegetable matter used as fertiliser | 1 answer |
| FERTILISING ingredients, mixture of general | 1 answer |
| Refuse to help in the garden? | 2 answers |
| Soil fertilizer | 2 answers |
| Gardener's supply | 7 answers |
| guano | 8 answers |
| Fertilizer. | 10 answers |
| Manure | 10 answers |
| A DUNGHILL OR REFUSE HEAP | 10 answers |
| dung | 16 answers |
| Fertiliser | 24 answers |
| Fertilise | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COMPOST (5)
The harbour-water and the slime were churned into one stinking compost, and the golden castle in which we clung lurched so wildly that we were torn from it and shot far away into the water.
And as to-night, with noble knowledge crammed, I 'mid this human compost take my place, I, once a poet, now so dead and damned, The woeful tears half freezing on my face: "O God!" I cry, "let me but take his shape, Moko's, the Blest, the Educated Ape." Death in the Arctic I I took the clock down from the shelf; "At eight," said I, "I shoot myself." It lacked a _MINUTE_ of the hour, And as I waited all a-cower, A skinful of black, boding pain, Bits of my life came back again.
Craig in honour, as a man who “knew his business” and who had great lights concerning soils and compost; but he was less of a favourite with Mrs.
But now I would like to emphasize here that increasing the agrarian population (that is, sending the secondary/tertiary population back to the farms), getting everyone to pull weeds by hand, make compost, give up agricultural chemicals, and produce modest quantities of clean vegetables, while being our goal, is quite impossible and unrealistic unless we solve the land problem.
Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what’s past, avoid what is to come; And do not spread the compost on the weeds, To make them ranker.
Quotes with COMPOST (3)
The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rott…
from "Semele Recycled" But then your great voice rang out under the skiesmy name!-- and all those private namesfor the parts and places that had loved you best. And they stirred in their nest of hay and dung. The distraught old ladies chasing their lost altar, and the seers pursuing my skull, their lost employment, and the tumbling boys, who wanted the magic marbles, and the runaway groom, and the fisherman's thirteen children, set up such a clamor, with their cries of "Mirac…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1970–2023).