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Of a piece from a whole
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chipping
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chip \Chip\ (ch[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chipped (ch[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Chipping .] [Cf. G. kippen to cut off the edge, to clip, pare. Cf. Chop to cut.] To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of chipping something [syn: chip , splintering ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chipping is a prefix used in a number of place names in England, probably derived from ceapen , an Old English word meaning 'market', though the meaning may alternatively come from (or via) the Medieval English word chepynge with a more specific meaning ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A fragment broken off of a larger material 2 The act of breaking something into small fragments, or of removing fragments from pottery etc. vb. (present participle of chip English)
Usage examples of chipping.
But if there was no other way, Bloch would find me stretched out on the floor, still chipping, when he came back.
He is called in different parts of the country, Ground Squirrel, Chipping Squirrel, and Chipmuck, the last being probably his Indian name.
It was so much easier than chipping ice for water that she decided to use some for washing.
Rejected shells are to be mutilated by chipping a piece out at the fuze-hole.
At one point, early in his televangelism days, he had sold tiny bits of rock and concrete swept up from construction sites and advertised as chippings from the Rock of Ages.
Flake tools with unifacial, unidirectional chipping, like those found at Calico, are typical of the European eoliths.
Joe chipping in because he stuck someone for a quid and Bloom putting in his old goo with his twopenny stump that he cadged off of Joe and talking about the Gaelic league and the antitreating league and drink, the curse of Ireland.
Longarm heard the sound of a pick or shovel chipping at rock, and knew that the archaeologists must already be at work excavating.
The gunners who had smashed down the gate fired at the parapets, their shots chipping at stone.
Hel and Le Cagot took turns down in the shaft, clearing rubble from the narrow ledges, chipping off sharp outcroppings that threatened to abrade the cable, breaking down the triangular wedges of boulders that blocked off the shaft.
It was dark on the landing, and she had to open the door to gain enough light and to get to the edges, but Isaac worked solidly anyway, not speaking, just chipping out more grooves, running cables, edging past her as he came through the doorway, and on up the ladder into the loft, drilling holes through all the ceilings, and along the rafters in the large room for the cables to feed through.
He was a generous man, chipping in with a contribution to my airfare over.
As always Barbs had drawn parallels with her own life, pointing out the insidious chipping away at self-esteem which went unnoticed by the recipient, the repression of emotion, until something happened to reveal the toxic situation in all its glory.
His men were arming the ship carefully, stowing her dragon-plates of steel in the hold where they could be unshipped quickly, fitting beckets to the gunwales to hold crossbows and quarrels, chipping rocks for the mules.
Then the builders had turned their ingenuity to bricking up old openings, and chipping out new ones, then bricking up the new ones and re-opening the old, or making newer ones yet.