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cow chip

noun

Definitions

  1. A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North…

    A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers.

    • Eleodes obsoleta: Common on the plains, beneath cow-chips and rubbish, everywhere from Denver to Colorado Springs.
    • He unhitched and unharnessed the team, turned it loose with the horse herd, remuda, and helped the cook gather cow chips for fuel.
    • When cattle replaced buffalo on the plains, cow chips in turn replaced buffalo chips as a ready source of British thermal units.

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