DCHP-1 Online

chip West

• n. a cake of dried buffalo or, later, cow dung, formerly much used on the prairies for fuel.

  See also: buffalo chip  

  • c1902  (1912)  The free trappers went alone or in pairs . . . cooking meals on chip fires, using slow-burning wormwood bark for matches. . . .
  • 1884  This illimitable hayfield is everywhere pitted with buffalo wallows, seamed by . . . buffalo trails, sprinkled with their chips or droppings and whitened with their bones.
  • 1960  There were no chips or wood around. so we meandered into the schoolhouse.