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  • noun Plural form of chipping.
  • noun Small fragments of material especially for use in construction

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Examples

  • These adorable little buns were rescued from underneath a load of 'chippings': (

    Daily Bunny 2009

  • The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) claims that sweeping up wood chippings in dusty workplaces can provoke asthma attacks and long term exposure lead to nose cancer.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • "No," he said, his voice seeming to be filtered through several layers of granite chippings.

    Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

  • Sometimes, I tool down the A1094 at midnight, obeying the 20mph signs, which are there on account of the danger of loose chippings.

    A lane with no limits 2010

  • As with the light-colored male voice Bayley heard once, speaking clear in her left ear, as she waited with others to load chippings on the slopes of Mount Tranquility.

    New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

  • The mountain has some protohistoric archaeological interest as stone tools and chippings hewn from ammonites have been discovered in a rock shelter at Blandé at the northern end.

    Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008

  • The wooden wizard of winter was one of several that we painted on chippings of firewood at our first Tennessee home.

    Winter Solstice « Fairegarden 2009

  • The outer faces of the panels were finished with stone chippings, and are still as good as when they were put up over forty years ago.

    Morris Walk M 2009

  • It was painstakingly crafted with colored glass chippings and is very typical of the Luang Prabang decorative style.

    From chaos to calm « Wanderings 2007

  • At the centre of the square stood the village war memorial: a large granite rock surrounded by white chippings and a black post and chain fence.

    Irish Blogs 2008

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