CHIPPING

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

2.
n.

The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.

3.
n.

The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.