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cow chip

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

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)
    • 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

Forms of cow chip

pluralcow chips
alternative formcowchip
alternative formcow-chip

Questions about cow chip

What does cow chip mean?
Cow chip means a piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers.
What part of speech is cow chip?
Cow chip is a noun.
What is the plural of cow chip?
The plural of cow chip is cow chips.

Words near cow chip in the dictionary

  1. cow bunny
  2. cow cat
  3. cow catcher
  4. cow catchers
  5. cow cats
  6. cow chip
  7. cow chips
  8. cow cockies
  9. cow cocky
  10. cow cod soup
  11. cow college

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