We started choppin’ on that tree, and we hadn’t been cuttin’ very long, until I got kinda tired.1986, Richard Bauman, Story, performance, and event, page 88:
Indeed, her hands—rough, calloused, scaly, and gnarled—were more like that of an old man than an old lady, testifying to her claim that she’d “Don’ don’ mens work, pickin’ an’ choppin’ cotton, puttin’ up fence rows, cuttin’ wood, takin’ keer of a fahm, fuh near sixty-fi’ years.”2007, William J. Jefferson, Dying is the Easy Part, page 98:
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Junior said Papa told him he cut his toe off with the choppin’ axe when he was choppin’ wood.2011, Henry A. Buchanan, Alfie and Papa’s Other Boys, page 6:
I’ve a good notion to take the fencin’ of it as well as the choppin’.1842, "The Bee-Tree", The Gift, page 52:
“I wanna see knife-cuttin’, slice-cuttin’, choppin’, blowin’ up,” he says, with a sneer.2007, Jesse Fox Mayshark, Post-Pop Cinema, page 21:
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Junior said Papa told him he cut his toe off with the choppin’ axe when he was choppin’ wood.2011, Henry A. Buchanan, Alfie and Papa’s Other Boys, page 6:
Cryin’ and choppin’. Cuttin’ and sobbin’.2012, Hillary Fogelson, Pale Girl Speaks, page 109: