Shavings is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHAVINGS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SHAVING, something shaved off
• a thin strip cut off a surface
• the action of shaving

Words related to SHAVINGS

shave11 shaving14

How to use SHAVINGS in a sentence

• In one corner was a heap of shavings and loose papers.
• Heale with a look of incredulous scorn, as if she expected the box to be a mere sham, filled probably with shavings.
• Across her shoulder she carried a sack full of shavings.
• She came in, deliciously shuddering, lighted a fire, already laid, of shavings and sticks, put the kettle on to boil and dressed.
• The knife had a keen edge, for David was a born woodsman and every woodsman keeps his tools always in good condition, and the shavings he cut were long and thin.
• Taking the butt of one of the bunches of shavings in his left hand, he scratched a match with his right hand and lighted the thin end of the shavings.
• Fire always climbs upward, and in an instant the whole bunch of shavings was ablaze.
• Scrap leather, wool waste, horn and hoof shavings are rich in nitrogen but they decay so slowly that they make poor fertilizers.
• There in the far corner of the cellar was a barrel of shavings blazing almost to the floor above.
• We can prove this by putting some dry shavings in a strong test tube fitted with a delivery tube.
• Just across the street, in an unfinished building, the carpenters had left a large pile of shavings.
• Mix the perfumes, stir them in the soap shavings, and beat together.
• Another kind is made from coarse shavings glued together.
• A sufficient amount of dry ice is then placed in the package which is then packed tight with more sawdust or shavings.
• Just beyond them lay a pile of chips and shavings, and beside it was a wood pile that almost reached the coal shed.
• She saw him running weakly toward the corner of the house, where two men were bending over the tar barrel, into which they had put the shavings.
• They had set fire to the shavings, and were lifting the barrel to place it against the side of the house.
• The lumber was hard to work because it was full of frost, and the boards gave off a sweet smell of pine woods, as the heap of yellow shavings grew higher and higher.
• They whistled cheerily at their work, and the yellow shavings flew far and wide.
• A small handful of wood shavings, thrown over the joints, also answers a good purpose.
• The coach, with an intuitive perception of what was expected of it, plunged into the centre of the kindling shavings, and stopped.
• In a corner the fellow had thrown a pile of shavings and saturated it with oil.
• The young folk also provided themselves with poles to which old brooms or faggots of shavings were attached.
• The next course consisted of another wooden bowl, filled with what seemed to be white pine shavings, and I looked at it in perfect astonishment.
• Firewood and shavings lay littered about the floors, while the half-naked children were cowering round two or three smouldering cinders.
• Please don’t think I’m going to afflict you with shavings of wisdom from the shop-floor, but life wasn’t intended to be too easy.
• The sections as made should be coated with coal tar, and then filled with light wood shavings, and the latter set alight.
• It was the dinner-hour, and all the workmen were either at home, in the cottages which stretched along the west side of the bay, or lay asleep among the shavings.
• The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes.
• The slices should be as thin as possible and yet remain slices, not shavings.

Similar words containing SHAVING without suffix s

shaving14 reshaving16

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