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n.
a cake of dried buffalo or, later, cow dung, formerly much used on the prairies for fuel.
See: buffalo chip
Quotations
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.
<i>c</i>1902
The free trappers went alone or in pairs . . . cooking meals on chip fires, using slow-burning wormwood bark for matches. . . .
1960
There were no chips or wood around. so we meandered into the schoolhouse.