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Chipping   /tʃˈɪpɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Chipping  n.  
1.
A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
2.
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.
3.
The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.


verb
Chip  v. t.  (past & past part. chipped; pres. part. chipping)  
1.
To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
2.
To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
3.
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.)


Chip  v. i.  To break or fly off in small pieces.





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"Chipping" Quotes from Famous Books



... justice of the criticism, and proceeded to remedy the defect by chipping away two or three of the teeth, and chiselling the gums so as to give them ...
— Strange Stories from History for Young People • George Cary Eggleston
... but I was a carpenter for six years before I went on the force and I know more about auger holes than you do. I say you can't be sure which side of the wall this hole was bored from. You talk about spirals, but there's no sense in that. They're the same either way. You might tell by the chipping, but this is hard wood covered with thick enamel, so there's apt to be no chipping. Anyhow, there's none here. We'll ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... "Surely there's enough light in the street at this moment to drown all our cares in gold!" Ah, what's the use of saying it? Even while you speak and look over your shoulder towards Shaftesbury Avenue, destiny is chipping a dent in him. He has turned to go. As for following him back to his rooms, no—that ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... that night; we were too excited and chattered away like school girls over our experiences, and to pass the time the inevitable card game started. During the game the sniping was active and continuous, the bullets chipping the building in all quarters. Our light was from a candle jammed into a jam tin and set between a couple of sand bags that we used for a table. Our mate, who had not yet taken his turn on the gun-watch, was inclined ...
— S.O.S. Stand to! • Reginald Grant
... It will be painful. There will be a great deal pared off. The sculptor makes the marble image by chipping away the superfluous marble. Ah! and when you have to chip away superfluous flesh and blood it is bitter work, and the chisel is often deeply dyed in gore, and the mallet seems to be very cruel. Simon did not know all that ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren


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