What is "chippings"

Usage examples of "chippings".

The rock crushers worked continuously throughout the planet’s twenty-six-hour day, but they could never supply enough chippings to stabilize the expanding city’s quagmire roads.

A prodigious amount of water was running off the ezystak-panel roof overhead, splattering onto the chippings round his soaking feet.

Heavy boots crunched on the gravel chippings of the embankment as he stalked towards the huddled townsfolk.

Granite chippings trickled over the edges, to be swallowed silently by the abyssal darkness which had been uncovered.

She shook up her reins as if nothing had happened and set off up the wood chippings at a medium canter, glancing back for me to follow.

I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop.

Whenever Roydale put his nose in front, Fringe found a bit extra, but it seemed there wasn't much between them, and with the end of the wood chippings in sight the contest was still undecided.

The courtyard was strewn with wood chippings, which accounted for the relative softness beneath her knees and an oddly sanitary smell pine resin which now registered.

Nevertheless, as the whine grew into a roar and flared, he was sure that a shadow fled with it between the buildings: the stretch of chippings in front of his door clicked from yellow to brown and back again.

A bit further on the path had been covered with loose chippings, presumably to make the going easier, but in fact the chippings stuck to my muddy boots so that it looked as if I were walking around with two very large currant buns on my feet.

So it was with relief, after a day spent dashing about through various Chippings and Slaughters and Tweeness-upon-the-Waters, that I abandoned the car in a car park in Broadway and took to my feet.

A half-mile further along, a wide driveway surfaced with pink chippings ended abruptly in a set of tall wrought-iron gates.

When she tripped and fell, he ran forwards to help her, but she saw him coming and got quickly to her feet, ignoring her skinned knees and the chippings still sticking to them.

The rocks had all been marked and could be reassembled, but the sand, gravel, and chippings were mixed up.

They were not rooms with hot and cold running water, and I half-filled the old-fashioned washbowl, with its faded flowers at the bottom and big thumbnail chippings round the rim, before I had finished.