Bodewash

Quick meaning: Bodewash is a noun meaning (US, Canada, dialect, archaic) Dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers.

Meaning

(US, Canada, dialect, archaic) Dried buffalo or cow dung, sometimes used as fuel by pioneers.

Example Sentences

Bodewash warmed many an early Manitoba settler.

But the apostle is done now. His press-teege is mashed flatter’n a bodewash chip.

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.

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