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chipping [′chip·iŋ] (metallurgy) Removing seams, surface defects, or other excess fragments from semifinished metal products by using a manual or pneumatic chisel or a continuous machine. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He - probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant - relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me, - a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement. Badger, "that he disfigured some of the houses and other buildings by chipping off fragments of those edifices with his little geological hammer. They swept through Chipping Barnet with the torrent; they were nearly a mile beyond the centre of the town before they had fought across to the opposite side of the way. |
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