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- noun Plural form of
woodshaving .
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Examples
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Marie Therese, whose dress was now covered in cobwebs and woodshavings, went on her knees and crawled into the black space.
Archive 2009-01-01 Young Geoffrion 2009
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Marie Therese, whose dress was now covered in cobwebs and woodshavings, went on her knees and crawled into the black space.
The Stair Young Geoffrion 2009
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It is a blend of many smells, of dung-fires and of cooking food, the sweet smell of new-cut hay and the ammoniacal smell of the horses, and the stench of human sewage in open pits, of leather and pitch and horse-sweat and woodshavings and sour beer.
River God Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1993
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Sawdust or fine woodshavings, milled straw, chaff, fine peat, milled coconut fibre and similar substances.
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A similar problem occurred with large woodchips and woodshavings.
Chapter 10 1976
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_ (He brushes the woodshavings from Stephen's clothes with light hand and fingers) _ One pound seven.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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