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ging suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea.

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made hea…

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

To interrupt; -- with in or out. This fellow interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in. Latimer.

another part, where the same or an allied subject is treated of. -- Cross sea (Naut.), a chopping sea, in which the waves run in contrary directions. -- Cross stroke, a line or stroke across something, as across the letter t. -- Cross wind, a side wind; an unfavorable wind. -- Cross wires, fine wires made to traver…

t uses; as, table knife, drawing knife, putty knife, pallet knife, pocketknife, penknife, chopping knife, etc.

One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. [Scot.] Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end. Tusser. Marrow squash (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the Boston marrow, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow…

A kind of chopping instrument for trimming the edges of roofing slates.

sometimes scooped out of a block of wood, for various domestic uses, as in making bread, chopping meat, etc.