Chop
CHOP, verb transitive
1. To cut off or separate, by striking with a sharp instrument, either by a single blow or by repeated blows; as, to chop off a head; to chop wood.
2. To cut into small pieces; to mince; as, to chop meat; to chop straw.
3. To grand and mince with the teeth; to devour eagerly; with up; as, to chop up an entertainment.
4. To break or open into chinks or fissures; to crack; to chap. [See Chap.]
CHOP, verb intransitive
1. To buy, or rather to barter, truck, exchange.
2. To exchange; to put one thing in the place of another; as, to chop and change our friends.
3. To bandy; to altercate; to return one word or thing for another.
Let not the council chop with the judge.
CHOP, verb intransitive To turn, vary, change or shift suddenly; as in the seamans phrase, the wind chops, or chops about. [The various senses of this verb seem to center in that of thrusting, driving, or a sudden motion or exertion of force.]
CHOP, noun
1. A piece chopped off; a small piece of meat; as a mutton chop
2. A crack or cleft. See Chap, which, with the broad sound of a, is often pronounced chap.
3. The chap; the jaw; plural The jaws; the mouth; the sides of a rivers mouth or channel. [See Chap.]
CHOP-CHURCH, noun An exchange or an exchanger of benefices.
CHOP-FALLEN, adjective Dejected; dispirited.
CHOP-HOUSE, noun A house where provision ready dressed is sold.
CHOPIN, noun A liquid measure in France, containing nearly a pint Winchester measure. In Scotland, a quart of wine measure.
CHOPPED, participle passive Cut; minced.
CHOPPING, participle present tense Cutting; mincing; buying; bartering.
CHOPPING, adjective Stout; lusty; plump.
CHOPPING, noun
1. A high-heeled shoe, worn by ladies in Italy. [See Chioppine.]
2. A cutting; a mincing; from chop.
CHOPPING-BLOCK, noun A block on which any thing is laid to be chopped.
CHOPPING-KNIFE, noun A knife for mincing meat.
CHOPPY, adjective Full of clefts or cracks.
CHOPS, [See Chop.]