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wallow †
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a depression formed by buffalo wallowing in mud or, less often, sand.
See: buffalo wallow
Quotations
1884
The wallows are saucer-like depressions in the ground, made by the buffaloes rubbing themselves. . . .
1952
These beasts normally were healthier than domestic cattle, but sometimes huge sores appeared inexplicably on their bodies and they thrashed about madly in their wallows, the shallow circular pits in the prairie in which they rolled to shed their matted winter coats.