0 small pieces of hickory wood used as a fuel for a barbecue (= a method of cooking outside) to give food a special taste
When warm weather brings danger of flies, smoke a week with hickory chips; avoid heating the air much.
She was on her knees in the snow, feeding hickory chips to the cherry red fire.
Under these it was my task to pile green hickory chips, pine sawdust and corncobs, which made a smoke of a peculiar, pungent, spicy quality and odor.
