road apple

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road apple

slang A piece of horse feces; a horse dropping. The trail was littered with road apples, as many people take their horses up this way. We were so poor that we had to go around collecting road apples so we could dry them and use them for fuel.

road apple

n. a lump of horse excrement. (see also alley apple.) There must be horses around here. I see road apples.

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