Dict: smith - DUNG

smith:

DUNG - D>@ - The uses of dung were two-fold
as manure and as fuel. The manure consisted either of straw steeped in liquid manure, kjv@Isaiah:25:10) or the sweepings, kjv@Isaiah:5:25) of the streets and roads, which were carefully removed from about the houses, and collected in heaps outside the walls of the towns at fixed spots
hence the dung-gate at Jerusalem
and thence removed in due course to the fields. The difficulty of procuring fuel in Syria, Arabia and Egypt has made dung in all ages valuable as a substitute. It was probably used for heating ovens and for baking cakes, kjv@Ezra:4:12 kjv@Ezra:4:15) the equable heat which it produced adapting it pecularily for the latter operation. Cow’s and camels dung is still used for a similar purpose by the Bedouins.

DUNGEON - D>@ - PRISON