other words for shavings
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The carpenter's bench stood under one of the trees, with shavings and chips all around it.
They went off like tiny shells, sputtering out on every side, but the shavings remained as dead as the sand of the beach.
Mr. Swenson showed him, very carefully, how to ignite the shavings with a teapot lamp.
According to Pasteur, the shavings perform only a passive part in the manufacture.
Then he closed his knife, and picked up the paper and the shavings and the surprise, and out of the room he tiptoed.
Hence he left heaps of dust, shavings, and other things to accumulate in heaps.
The choking of a plane is the stoppage of the throat by shavings.
Her whittling finished, she carefully gathered up all the shavings and threw them into the fire.
He had a tar barrel and another huge sack of shavings, besides a whole pile of dry driftwood.
Henry slid forward, recovered a long dead stick, and rapidly whittled from it a lot of shavings.