The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word COWPAT
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More clues leading to the result COWPAT
- Cover clothes with phosphorus, a hazard in the field
- Dropping firm? Exactly rightI
- Threaten to touch a steamer?
- Weather permitting, wearing garment created from recycled material made in Jersey?
- Result of evacuation from warship evacuated and jacketed
- Heartless wimp appearing in film is unappealing lump
- A waste product rococo art used this to depict?
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What does COWPAT mean?
COWPAT noun- A dropping of cow dung.