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cowchip

cowchip 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 cowchip

pluralcowchips

Questions about cowchip

What is cowchip the alternative form of?
Cowchip is the alternative form of cow chip.

Words near cowchip in the dictionary

  1. cowched
  2. cowches
  3. cowchild
  4. cowchildren
  5. cowching
  6. cowchip
  7. cowchips
  8. cowcod
  9. Cowcolly
  10. cowculator
  11. cowculators

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