Chopping
['tʃɒpɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chop
(a.) Stout or plump; large.
(a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.
(n.) Act of cutting by strokes.
Checker: Max
Definition
adj. stout strapping plump.
Editor: Shanna
Examples
- Painting, chopping wood, hammering, plowing, washing, scrubbing, sewing, are all forms of work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He was busily chopping away at the furze, a long row of faggots which stretched downward from his position representing the labour of the day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The gum is collected by chopping through the bark with a hatchet and placing under each series of cuts a little clay cup formed by the hands of the workman. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the presence of Lord Decimus, to detain the host with chopping our dry chaff of law, was really too bad! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- No,' said Miss Wren, chopping off the word. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Chopping about is merely an exhaustive process. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then I began to catch crabs and soon I was just chopping along again with a thin brown taste of bile from having rowed too hard after the brandy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Editor: Shanna