woodchip
English
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Noun
woodchip (countable and uncountable, plural woodchips)
- A small mechanically produced piece (chip) of wood, generally from 0.5 to 10 cm in diameter, used primarily as raw material for pulp, paper and construction boards, as well as fuel and mulch.
- A small fibre of wood; especially such material as used to make ingrain wallpaper, aka woodchip wallpaper.
- 1995, “Disco 2000”, in Different Class, performed by Pulp:
- Oh, Deborah, do you recall? / Your house was very small / With woodchip on the wall
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chip of wood