Etymology From cow + pool (“small body of water”).
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A pond used by cows.
Dried snot on the marijuana pipe tossed into the cowpool built with government subsidy on a Vermont commune.1986, Hortense Calisher, The Bobby-Soxer, Doubleday, published 1986, →ISBN, page 278:
cowpool
verb
Etymology From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool.
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To jointly purchase all or part of a butchered cow with one or more additional parties and split the meat.
Brandee Callahan, 32, has lived in Huntersville for about two years and has ordered from GO Local for a year. She cowpools about every three months and supplements with smaller orders.2011 June 22, Lukas Johnson, “Company connects local food movement”, in Lake Norman News:
cowpool
noun
Etymology From cow + pool (“to put together”), by analogy with carpool.
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A group that engages in cowpooling.
Others have created so-called "cowpools" to divvy up an entire animal and dole out cuts of meat.2008 August 10, Peter Andrey Smith, “The ABCs of the New CSAs”, in Gourmet: