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/ˈboʊdwɔʃ/ · noun
(US, Canada, dialect, archaic) Dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers..
Bodewash. (Fr. bois de vache.) Dried cow-dung, used for fuel on the treeless plains of the Far West.
We therefore gathered a quantity of dry buffalo dung [bois de vache or “bodewash”] with which we made shift to keep the mosquitoes away; our provisions required no cooking.
But the apostle is done now. His press-teege is mashed flatter’n a bodewash chip.
Bodewash warmed many an early Manitoba settler.
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Bodewash means (US, Canada, dialect, archaic) Dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers..
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Bodewash. (Fr. bois de vache.) Dried cow-dung, used for fuel on the treeless plains of the Far West.
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