noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
water buffalo
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hide
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Made from buffalo hide and deerskin, it is decorated with eagle feathers.
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At night, the men sometimes got out a fiddle and pegged down a dry buffalo hide and danced on it.
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In the 18705, the equation than turned buffalo hides into buffing rags brought a lot of money here.
meat
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Any leftover cooked buffalo meat from roasts can be added just long enough to warm it thoroughly.
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Season the buffalo meat with pepper, thyme, rosemary, salt, ground chili, and cumin.
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The Sioux boiled buffalo meat with heated rocks in a buffalo paunch, then ate the paunch, too.
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Fresh buffalo meat was hard to ship, because it would not travel except in the cold months.
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She served them a dinner of coffee, beans, potatoes, and salted buffalo meat .
robe
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The buffalo robes were good for keeping warm in carriages in northern cities.
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Tiredness ached in her bones, she sagged and rocked, hunched in her blanket with the buffalo robe around her feet.
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That done, the sick man and the buffalo robe were removed.
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Moses McTavish and I ducked through his tipi door and sat cross-legged on buffalo robes around the fire pit in the center.
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A wife, if she worked hard, could prepare ten buffalo robes for trade in a season.
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At the traders', one buffalo robe was worth from seven to nine cups of sugar.
water
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A great white heron uses a water buffalo as a fishing perch.
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We ate raclette and gelato and haggis and reindeer and zebra and water buffalo .
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Rice paddies and corn fields stretched away from the road. Water buffalo pulled plows or wallowed in the paddies.
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Along the staircase of the Legislative Council building are old paintings of water buffalo and bamboo paddies.
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Once we were harangued to eat protein, and heaven help the poor water buffalo who ambled past me at mealtime.
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Outside, ducks and water buffalo roam free.
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They might have been water buffalo .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Coat buffalo steaks with oil and season to taste with salt and pepper.
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Despite its size, the buffalo is a very fast animal and can run up to thirty-five miles per hour.
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Grazing buffalo knocked over the satellite dish, so a bamboo fence has had to be built around it.
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I am out here alone, unprotected, only a thin piece of plastic-canvas away from lions, buffalo , leopards and hyena.
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It is illustrated with drawings of buffalo , giraffe, warthog and camp scenes, and describes a rhino hunt.
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They can also catch kinds of prey that they could not catch by themselves, such as buffalo .
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We ate raclette and gelato and haggis and reindeer and zebra and water buffalo .
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When the buffalo were slaughtered, they lay so thick on the ground that you could walk for miles on the bodies.