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Definition of Chopping
1. a. Stout or plump; large.
2. a. Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.
3. n. Act of cutting by strokes.
Definition of Chopping
1. Verb. (present participle of chop#Verb chop) ¹
2. Noun. The action by which something is chopped. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chopping
1. chop [v] - See also: chop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chopping
Literary usage of Chopping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellender Ker (1837)
"E. " The chopping of bargains, when a man buys, not to hold, but to sell again
... Sets up communities and senses " We go chopping and Changing our friends, ..."
2. Man the Primeval Savage: His Haunts and Relics from the Hill-tops of by Worthington George Smith (1894)
"chopping tool, Stoke Newington Common. Half scale. held in the hand for use, and
the semicircular edge was used for chopping or hacking. ..."
3. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Behind the Plough — The Indian Maiden of Fiction — Wrestling with the Sportive
Hoe — A Square Day's Work — The chopping Match — Startling Facts. ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"A chopping sea follows the rolling crest of the bore, and sometimes wrecks a boat
in a few minutes. The most important affluents of the Sit-taung are—the ..."
5. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by Baba Padmanji, James Thomas Molesworth (1863)
"4 Shifting and chopping about (of wind). p. of « [for п. ... 5 A chopping block.
я. A horse (without distinction of sex). A trooper. 5f/. ..."
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