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The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.

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

Boorish; rude. C. Bronté.

A corruption of Swan-upping. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.

Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story. [Colloq.]

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.

nother 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 travers…

ccessive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden.

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

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…

causes the patient to spring into the air, so as to make repeated involuntary motions of hopping and jumping. J. Ross.

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

or the purpose of purchasing goods. He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping. Byron.

A small shoot or branch; a twig. Chaucer. The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing. Dryden.

up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping. [Eng.] Encyc. Brit.

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