chipping

Verb

chip (third-person singular simple present chips, present participle chipping, simple past and past participle chipped)

1. (transitive) To chop or cut into small pieces.
   • The workers chipped the dead branches into mulch.
2. (transitive) To break small pieces from.
   • Be careful not to chip the paint.
3. (intransitive) To become chipped.
   • This varnish chips easily.
4. (dialectal, transitive) To chisel (something), to chisel on (something).
   • The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.
5. (dialectal, intransitive) To use a chisel.
   • The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline.
6. (transitive) To strike or play (the ball or other implement) as a chip shot.
   • Koeman identified Southampton’s third as their finest goal of the game. Jack Cork, the most underrated player at a much-lauded club, swept the ball out wide to Tadic, who waited for Cork to run to the back post before chipping the ball across to him to slam in a deserved goal from close range...2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian

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