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cow-chip

cow-chip is the alternative form of cow chip.

Meaning of cow chip

Noun

cow chip (plural cow chips)

  1. 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.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 of cow-chip

pluralcow-chips

Questions about cow-chip

What is cow-chip the alternative form of?
Cow-chip is the alternative form of cow chip.

Words near cow-chip in the dictionary

  1. cow's grass
  2. cow's grease
  3. cow's lungwort
  4. cow's milk
  5. cow's milks
  6. cow-chip
  7. cow-chips
  8. cow-clicker
  9. cow-clickers
  10. cow-creamer
  11. cow-creamers

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