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cowpool en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From cow + pool (“small body of water”).

Meanings

  1. A pond used by cows.
    • Dried snot on the marijuana pipe tossed into the cowpool built with government subsidy on a Vermont commune. 1986, Hortense Calisher, The Bobby-Soxer, Doubleday, published 1986, →ISBN, page 278:

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cowpool en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool.

Meanings

  1. A group that engages in cowpooling.
    • Others have created so-called "cowpools" to divvy up an entire animal and dole out cuts of meat. 2008 August 10, Peter Andrey Smith, “The ABCs of the New CSAs”, in Gourmet:

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cowpool en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool.

Meanings

  1. To jointly purchase all or part of a butchered cow with one or more additional parties and split the meat.
    • Brandee Callahan, 32, has lived in Huntersville for about two years and has ordered from GO Local for a year. She cowpools about every three months and supplements with smaller orders. 2011 June 22, Lukas Johnson, “Company connects local food movement”, in Lake Norman News:

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cowpooling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
cowpools Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic