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compost pile

n. a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost [syn: compost heap]

Usage examples of "compost pile".

If the compost pile is too dry or too wet, the process slows down.

While he shoveled, a young pit bull terrier approached the compost pile, sniffed it, was distressed by the smell and whined to his master.

Here and there, in the shade, were more clusters of the colored bubbles he had noted by the compost pile.

Martha rejected the next three houses because they didn't have room for the compost pile she was planning to take along.

Those fingers were undoubtedly in some compost pile in the bowels of Oberon.

Julie looked at Farrell and followed her, and Farrell went off around the birdhouses to winkle the dog out of her favorite nest behind Ben's compost pile.

From there she went to sweep out the henhouse and lay the sweepings on the compost pile, and from there to the garden that had gone neglected that past week.

It reminded her of hot summer afternoons spent turning the compost pile, of anaerobic bacteria, and of scrubbing the algae out of the water troughs.

I must here mention my personal attachment for descendant Julie Couper Beziat, who, like Frances Daugherty, still has never met either Jo or Ann --but will one day--and especially Jo's husband, Robert Cauthorn, himself knowledgeable and admirably patient with my many requests to call Jo in from her mysterious work on the compost pile in their yard.