Meaning of cow chip | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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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