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Definition of Chop down
1. Verb. Cut down. "They chop down the trees"; "George chopped down the cherry tree"
Definition of Chop down
1. Verb. (transitive) (&lit chop down) ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To curtail, shorten ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chop Down
Literary usage of Chop down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secwana Dictionary: Secwana-English and English-Secwana by John Tom Brown (1895)
"... to cut, or chop down by the backbone, removing leg, shoulder, and ribs, ...
to cut, or chop down the middle of a backbone, ..."
2. Dictionary and Grammar of the Language of Saʻa and Ulawa, Solomon Islands by Walter George Ivens (1918)
"... to chop down, to fell. tohu 2. v. tr., to build a house; ... to chop down, to
fell. 2. v. tr., to point at, to accuse. to'i v. tr., to suspend, ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept, Southern Pacific Company (1912)
"Backed by the money-sack of the Broadway impresario, he was able to chop down
and set up in the Greek Theater more trees than any one had ever before ..."
4. Historical Sketches of Bluehill, Maine by R[ufus] G[eorge] F[rederick] Candage (1905)
"To agree upon a method and the time when to chop down the trees for Mr. Fisher.
"3d. To see what steps they will take with regard to building a barn for Mr. ..."
5. Roy Blakeley, His Story: Being the True Narrative of His Adventures and by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1920)
""It'll cut, too," he said; "and I'm going to chop down a lot of trees. And it's
my very own, isn't it?" Jiminy, I didn't know how to answer that, ..."
6. On the Civic Relations by Henry Holt (1907)
"... or he can't go into a wood and chop down the trees that ought to be taken,
without somebody of superior ability to mark them for him—he cannot even ..."
7. The British Empire Series (1900)
"(3) And shall chop down and cultivate not less than two acres, ... (4) chop down,
cultivate, and clear not less than ten acres within three years, ..."
8. Routledge's Every Boy's Annual by Edmund Routledge (1865)
"Indeed, some shooters are almost sure to take a wicket; the moment therefore that
a ball shoots, drop the bat back close to the stumps, and chop down upon ..."
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