bescumber
English
Etymology
be- + scumber
Verb
bescumber (third-person singular simple present bescumbers, present participle bescumbering, simple past and past participle bescumbered)
- (transitive, obsolete) To discharge ordure or dung upon.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bescumber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)