Definition of "chipboard" [chipboard]

• A pasteboard made from discarded paper. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "· Particle board (also called chipboard), principally made of wood chips (but also from other fibrous or small-sized ligno-cellulose materials), which are dried, blended with a synthetic resin and hot-pressed (requiring about 8 % binder) or extrusion-pressed (requiring only 5 % binder) to almost any desirable shape."
• "The "chipboard" is actually Packing cardboard from a Simply Scrappin' Kit That I covered with that paper I love so much!"
• "Green funerals see people buried in coffins made from bio-degradable material such as chipboard and wicker work."