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wood shavings

n. thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing [syn: excelsior]

Usage examples of "wood shavings".

Tulla crawls under the wood shavings and I, because she is sick, have to take her temperature with my little finger in her aperture.

All the gluepots and beautiful curly wood shavings belonged to you.

She brushed hay and wood shavings off her clothes while she was still in the kitchen, and went to find him.

Master Lazarus, stretched out in the deep of night amid half-finished cradles and troughs on the wood shavings of his workshop, listens to the thunder and thinks about his newborn son and about God.

She remembered the piles of wood shavings in the palace at Ebinissia, outside the girls' rooms.

Having examined the loose boxes for sticking-out nails and jagged edges of wood, they put down wood shavings and fed and watered the horses.

Biologists and zpologists - including two eminent human orthopediterists - argued over what sort of `bedding' would suit her needs, and chose straw and wood shavings, as well as several types of artificial chips, bits and bobbles.

As weak as a rag doll, Chico sprawled on the soft wood shavings, and the man strode over to me to feel for himself the force being applied in keeping me where I was.

We'll somehow get hold of a bag of wood shavings, so we can sleep on the floor.

Fresh wood shavings, hot glue, and pipe tobacco blended into an aroma as seductive as the finest perfume.

The loft had been comfortable enough, with a mattress of fragrant wood shavings and pretty wooden panels above (he had half expected to see the roots of the grass that grew in the turf that formed the outer roof), but those Animations kept returning to his mind's eye.

I tossed the hat on a pile of wood shavings, bent nails, odd lengths of sawed lumber.

She took a sweeping brush and started to sweep the curled wood shavings into a heap.