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Definition of Buffalo chip
1. Noun. A piece of dried bovine dung.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buffalo Chip
Literary usage of Buffalo chip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1917)
"In another Arapaho version a stick is thrown first, then a buffalo-chip, pith,
... Old-Man throws into the water a buffalo-chip, saying that if it floats, ..."
2. Life and Adventures of "Billy" Dixon, of Adobe Walls, Texas Panhandle: A by Billy Dixon (1914)
"I wish here to say something in honor of the buffalo chip. In later years, as
the fortunes of the settlers in western Kansas improved and their social ..."
3. Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians by Robert Harry Lowie (1918)
"When they woke up they found a fresh buffalo chip. Old-Man-Coyote did the same
thing, only instead of a buffalo chip there was a fresh wolf chip that had a ..."
4. Blackfoot Lodge Tales by George Bird Grinnell (2001)
"The woman stood still a long time, looking from the stone to the buffalo chip,
and from the chip to the stone. At last she said, "Throw the stone. ..."
5. Societies of the Plains Indians by Clark Wissler (1916)
"With the pipe there is a buffalo chip enclosed in a pericardium. ... but if such
were not at hand an ordinary buffalo chip was substituted. ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"A rest for the pipe is set up, just behind the oval, the bowl of the pipe put
oil :i buffalo-chip, the rest supporting the stein. ..."
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