buffalo wallow†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a depression formed by buffalo wallowing in mud or, less often, sand.

Quotations

1884

This illimitable hayfield is everywhere pitted by buffalo wallows. . . .

1963

The next day they passed through . . . prairie . . . traversed in all directions by old buffalo trails and wallows.