bodewash

noun

1. (Canada, US, archaic, dialectal, uncountable)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.”