potash

noun potash

• buffalo chips — the dried dung of buffalo used as fuel, especially by early settlers on the western plains.
• cow chip — A piece of dried cow dung, used especially as fuel in the Third World and by early North American settlers.
• cow chips — plural of cow chip.
• fertilizer — any substance used to fertilize the soil, especially a commercial or chemical manure.
• guano — a natural manure composed chiefly of the excrement of sea birds, found especially on islands near the Peruvian coast.