DCHP-1 Online
buffalo wool 
1 n. the fine hair beneath the coarse outer hair on a buffalo skin.
See also: Buffalo Wool Company
- 1913 During the early days of the Red River settlement . . . an energetic promoter named Pritchard planned an original industry--none other than that of buffalo wool.
- 1922 [Nothing [was] to be done but to walk out into the Plains, kill buffalo, take their wool, dress and weave it. . . .]
- 1913 During the early days of the Red River settlement . . . an energetic promoter named Pritchard planned an original industry--none other than that of buffalo wool.
2 n. any of several short grasses, as Buchloë dactyloides, common on the prairies.
See also: buffalo grass prairie wool
- 1960 He felt certain that the only heather Dumont had picked had grown among buffalo wool at St. Paul des Métis. . . .
- 1960 He felt certain that the only heather Dumont had picked had grown among buffalo wool at St. Paul des Métis. . . .