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Default Etymological question -- "waller" a hole

On 08/08/2016 2:18 PM, Nickolas Crosby wrote:
replying to Tim Wescott, Nickolas Crosby wrote:
Checking in a few years later, but just searched this out when someone
poked fun at me saying "wallered out" at work. ...


And a very good word it is, too!

Here we have the remnants of buffalo wallers in native grass that hasn't
been broken out (plowed) as another use of the term.

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