casings
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- plural of casing
- (UK, dialect, archaic) Dried cattle dung used as fuel.
- 1730, Daniel Waterland, Scripture Vindicated:
- Wherefore God permitted him to take other fuel, namely, cow's dung, dried casings, to bake his bread with.
References
edit“casings”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.