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buffalo chip † Hist.

• a piece of dried buffalo dung, often used for fuel on the prairies.

  See also: bois de vache  cow chip  prairie chip  chip  

  • 1765-75  (1933)  [They Make youse of Buffaloes dung for fuel as there is but little or no Wood upon the Planes.]
  • 1859  (1860)  We reached "Buffalo Chip Lake" [now Chip Lake] . . . and camped on its margin.
  • 1874  (1910)  All over this country there is little wood, and snow would hide the buffalo chips, the only fuel available.
  • 1958  Dry buffalo chips were the chief source of fuel on the prairies.