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cow chip en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers.
   • When cattle replaced buffalo on the plains, cow chips in turn replaced buffalo chips as a ready source of British thermal units. 2012, Mike Cox, Texas Panhandle Tales, →ISBN, page 121:
   • He unhitched and unharnessed the team, turned it loose with the horse herd, remuda, and helped the cook gather cow chips for fuel. 1995, Laban Samuel Records, Cherokee Outlet Cowboy, →ISBN, page 90:
   • Eleodes obsoleta: Common on the plains, beneath cow-chips and rubbish, everywhere from Denver to Colorado Springs. 1877, Philip Reese Uhler, "ART. XXXI - Report upon the insects collected by P. R. Uhler during the explorations of 1875," U. S. Department of the Interior, p. 778 (Google preview)

Forms

Relateds

cow patty · cow pat · cowpie · buffalo chip

Translations (3)

de Kuhfladen (dried cow dung) · pl krowi placek (dried cow dung) · fi lehmänlantakakku (dried cow dung)