chopping

noun, adj — 3 senses

chopping

noun

1

The action by which something is chopped; the act of assailing something with chops.

As soon as this danger was appreciated there followed a nervous smashing and chopping of triffids everywhere, until it occurred to someone that all that was necessary to make them harmless was the removal of the actual stinging weapon.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 43:

Derived terms: chopping mill, chopping stump, logic-chopping

chopping

adj

1

Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.

a chopping sea

2

Obsolete stout; large; plump

Yet some prolific planet smil'd, / And gave the pair a chopping child[…]a. 1730, Elijah Fenton, The Widow's Wile:

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