Crossword clues for chipping
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; to hew.
--Shak.To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
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To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
To chip in, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.]
Chipping \Chip"ping\, n.
A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
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)
WordNet
See chip
n. a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: bit, flake, fleck, scrap]
a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line
a piece of dried bovine dung [syn: cow chip, cow dung, buffalo chip]
a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat [syn: crisp, potato chip, Saratoga chip]
a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something [syn: check]
a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling [syn: poker chip]
electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit [syn: microchip, micro chip, silicon chip]
a low running approach shot [syn: chip shot]
the act of chipping something [syn: chipping, splintering]
n. the act of chipping something [syn: chip, splintering]
v. break off (a piece from a whole); "Her tooth chipped" [syn: chip off, come off, break away, break off]
cut a nick into [syn: nick]
play a chip shot
form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone"
break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth" [syn: knap, cut off, break off]
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 of 'long market square'. It was sometimes historically spelled as Chepying.
- Chipping, Lancashire
- Chipping Barnet
- Chipping Campden
- Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
- Chipping Ongar
- Chipping Sodbury
- Chipping Steps, Tetbury
- Chipping Warden
- Chepping Wycombe
Chipping can also refer to:
- Chipping Norton, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney in Australia
- Chip tuning a car's ECU system
- Installing a modchip into a game console
- Using a woodchipper
- Being a chipper (tobacco), or other occasional drugs user
- A method of propagating plant bulbs, linked to twin-scaling
- The process of inserting a microchip implant (animal)
- Chipping (rock climbing)
Chipping is a rock climbing technique that uses a hammer and chisel to create artificial hand-holds on natural rock. The hammer and chisel may be substituted for any other tool that can take off layers of a rock to create a different feature on the rock. Within the climbing community this is an extremely controversial topic because it permanently modifies the natural features of a rock face. While in the past the practice was accepted or ignored, as more people have become climbers and environmental concerns have grown, there has been a trend against chipping. This process can also be referred to as "manufacturing" holds.
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.