Translation for "estercolar" to english
Estercolar
verb
Translation examples
verb
Pon allí una válvula y tubos, y puedes estercolar debajo de la tierra.
Put in a valve and pipes and you can manure the whole garden. Underground.
Si va a empezar a llorar me vuelvo a casa a estercolar el jardín.
If you're gonna start that, I'm gonna go home and shovel manure on the pansies.
Quedan ya algunos dichos y se añaden ahora otros para ilustración general, porque creen las gentes de la ciudad, en su ignorancia, que todo es sembrar y recoger, pues muy engañadas viven si no aprendieron a decir las palabras todas y a entender lo que ellas son, segar, cargar con las gavillas, guadañar, trillar a máquina o a sangre, majar el centeno, cubrir el pajar, enfardar paja o heno, desgranar maíz, estercolar, sembrar cereales, labrar, cortar, desbrozar, cavar el maíz, poner los marcos, podar, poner varales, hacer desmontes, abrir regatas, escardar, abancalar, carpir, injertar, sulfatar, cargar los racimos, trabajar en las bodegas, en los huertos, cavar las tierras para las legumbres, varear aceitunas, trabajar en los lagares del aceite, arrancar corcho, trasquilar ganado, trabajar en pozos, en terrazas, en bancales, cortar leña, sangrar los pinos para que caiga la resina, hornear, hacer desmontes, gradar, ensacar, carpir, lo que aquí va, santo Dios, qué montón de palabras, tan bonitas, palabras que enriquecen el léxico, bienaventurados los que trabajan, y lo que sería si nos pusiéramos a explicar cómo se hace cada trabajo, y en qué época, los instrumentos, los aperos, y si es obra de hombre, o de mujer, y por qué.
We’ve mentioned some already, and now we add others for the purpose of general enlightenment, because townspeople think, in their ignorance, that it’s all a matter of sowing and harvesting, well, they’re much mistaken unless they learn all the other verbs involved and realize just what they mean, harvesting, carrying sheaves, scything, threshing either by machine or by hand, flailing the barley, covering the hayrick, baling up straw or hay, shucking the maize, spreading manure, sowing seeds, digging, clearing land, cutting up the maize stalks and digging them in, shoeing, pruning, ringing, leveling, digging ditches and trenches, hoeing, making terraces, grafting vines, taping up the graft, spraying with copper sulfate, carrying the grapes, working in the cellars, laboring in the vegetable plots, preparing the ground, beating the olive trees, working the oil presses, cutting cork, shearing sheep, cleaning wells, hacking undergrowth, chopping firewood, staking, covering with straw, earthing up, plugging, bagging and whatever else needs doing, all those lovely terms enriching our lexicon, blessed be the workers, and if we were to start explaining how each task is performed and in which season, and the tools and the implements needed, and whether it was men’s work or women’s and why, we would never end.
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