Buffalo Chip (Noun)
Meaning
A piece of dried bovine dung.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made).
Examples
- The cowboys used buffalo chips as fuel for their campfires on the open range.
- After a long day of herding cattle, the rancher would often sit by the fire and toss a buffalo chip into the flames.
- The dry, cracked earth was littered with buffalo chips, a testament to the large herd that had recently passed through.
- As a child, she had been fascinated by the buffalo chips her grandfather would use to make tea on their camping trips.
- The smell of burning buffalo chips wafted through the air, a familiar scent to anyone who had spent time on the American frontier.