wood shavings

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   thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing

   Synonymsexcelsior

   Broaderpacking material

Questions about wood shavings

What does wood shavings mean?

wood shavings means "thin curly wood shavings used for packing or stuffing".

What is another word for wood shavings?

Close synonyms include excelsior. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wood shavings a common word?

wood shavings is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.