"cow chip" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "cow chips",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "cow chip (plural cow chips)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1877, Philip Reese Uhler, \"ART. XXXI - Report upon the insects collected by P. R. Uhler during the explorations of 1875,\" U. S. Department of the Interior, p. 778 (Google preview)",
          "text": "Eleodes obsoleta: Common on the plains, beneath cow-chips and rubbish, everywhere from Denver to Colorado Springs."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Laban Samuel Records, Cherokee Outlet Cowboy, page 90",
          "text": "He unhitched and unharnessed the team, turned it loose with the horse herd, remuda, and helped the cook gather cow chips for fuel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Mike Cox, Texas Panhandle Tales, page 121",
          "text": "When cattle replaced buffalo on the plains, cow chips in turn replaced buffalo chips as a ready source of British thermal units.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers."
      ],
      "id": "en-cow_chip-en-noun-44JBcppy",
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        [
          "dung",
          "dung"
        ],
        [
          "fuel",
          "fuel"
        ],
        [
          "Third World",
          "Third World"
        ],
        [
          "settler",
          "settler"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "buffalo chip"
        },
        {
          "word": "cow pat"
        },
        {
          "word": "cow patty"
        },
        {
          "word": "cowpie"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cowchip"
        },
        {
          "word": "cow-chip"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "dried cow dung",
          "word": "lehmänlantakakku"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "dried cow dung",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Kuhfladen"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "dried cow dung",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "krowi placek"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cow chip"
}

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    {
      "form": "cow chips",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "buffalo chip"
    },
    {
      "word": "cow pat"
    },
    {
      "word": "cow patty"
    },
    {
      "word": "cowpie"
    }
  ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Philip Reese Uhler, \"ART. XXXI - Report upon the insects collected by P. R. Uhler during the explorations of 1875,\" U. S. Department of the Interior, p. 778 (Google preview)",
          "text": "Eleodes obsoleta: Common on the plains, beneath cow-chips and rubbish, everywhere from Denver to Colorado Springs."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Laban Samuel Records, Cherokee Outlet Cowboy, page 90",
          "text": "He unhitched and unharnessed the team, turned it loose with the horse herd, remuda, and helped the cook gather cow chips for fuel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Mike Cox, Texas Panhandle Tales, page 121",
          "text": "When cattle replaced buffalo on the plains, cow chips in turn replaced buffalo chips as a ready source of British thermal units.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers."
      ],
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          "dung"
        ],
        [
          "fuel",
          "fuel"
        ],
        [
          "Third World",
          "Third World"
        ],
        [
          "settler",
          "settler"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "cowchip"
    },
    {
      "word": "cow-chip"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "dried cow dung",
      "word": "lehmänlantakakku"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "dried cow dung",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kuhfladen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "dried cow dung",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "krowi placek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cow chip"
}