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Vinony

chipping

noun

  1. rock climbing technique
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɪpɪŋ/

name

Etymology: From Old English ċīeping (“market, marketplace”). Compare Swedish köping ("market"). Chipping, Cheapside, and cheap all reflect ancestry from Old English ceapian, concerning trading in markets.

  1. A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).
  2. A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6243).
  3. Obsolete form of Chepping Wycombe.

    “CHIPPING, or Much-Wiccomb, a borough-town of Buckinghamſhire, about ten miles ſouth of Aileſbury...”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English chippyng, chippynge, equivalent to chip + -ing.

  1. A fragment broken off a larger object.
  2. The act of creating or producing chips, as by breaking something into small fragments, cutting potatoes, removing fragments from pottery, etc.

verb

Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

  1. present participle and gerund of chip