Chipping
['tʃɪpɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chip
(n.) A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
Checker: Victoria
Examples
- Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thirty years ago, the cost of labour for turning a surface of cast iron, by chipping and filing with the hand, was 12s. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I wonder you did not go out of your mind in that smoky London, chipping away at marble and cutting it out. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Pilgrims were too much given to chipping off pieces of it to carry home. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Even of that marble-chipping you call art? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Pansy