What is "dunghills"

Usage examples of "dunghills".

The peasants objected to having their byres invaded and their dunghills forked down, and to being put to unfamiliar work.

Men were forking down dunghills and digging under them, and caldrons steamed over fires.

The ammonia cal stink of the animal lines, the smoke and the stench of rubbish dumps rotting in the sun, the dunghills and the latrine pits, the ripe odour of carrion and unwashed humanity under the desert sun rivalled the effusions of the battlefield.

Wires hummed aloft, giant steel legs stalked motionless on frightened landscapes past haystacks, mute blind barns, wagons rotting by dunghills on tracks to isolation where brown dwellings shrugged up from the earth.