woodchip

See also: wood-chip, and wood chip

English

uniform woodchips

woodchips of various shapes and sizes

woodchip wallpaper

Alternative forms

• wood-chip, wood chip

Etymology

From wood +‎ chip.

Noun

woodchip (countable and uncountable, plural woodchips)

1. 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.
2. 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

Coordinate terms

• sawdust, woodflour, wood flour, woodmeal, woodshaving, woodwool, wood wool

Derived terms

• woodchipper
• woodchipping

Translations

chip of wood

• Faroese: træflís f
• Finnish: lastu (fi), hake (fi) (chips as mass)
• German: Holzschnitzel m, Holzhackschnitzel (de) m, Holzspan m
• Hungarian: fűrészpor (hu)
• Maori: kūkā
• Polish: zrębek m
• Spanish: fragmento de madera m, trozo de madera m
• Swedish: träflisa (sv)

fibre of wood

• Finnish: puukuitu
• German: Holzfaser (de) f
• Hungarian: farost (hu)
• Portuguese: farpa (pt) f