English

Alternative forms

• teathe, tathe

Noun

tath ‎(plural taths)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.

Etymology 2

From Middle English tathen, from Old Norse teðja ‎(“to manure”), from Proto-Germanic *tadjaną ‎(“to strew, scatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- ‎(“to divide, split, part, section”). Cognate with Icelandic teðja ‎(“to dung, manure”), Norwegian tedja ‎(“to dung”), German zetten ‎(“to let fall in small pieces, let crumble”).

Verb

tath ‎(third-person singular simple present taths, present participle tathing, simple past and past participle tathed)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.