Chipped

ppl. a. [f. CHIP v.¹ and sb.¹]

  † 1.  Chapped. Obs.

1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. li. (1495), 633. Chyppid chynnes and whelkes of the lyppes.

1530.  Palsgr., 307/2. Chypped as ones face or handes is with the marche wynde.

  2.  Cut into chips; made with chips or small pieces.

1599.  Minsheu, Sp. Dict., Engastár … to make inlaied worke, as chipped worke or checker work with bone, or timber.

1611.  Cotgr., Chapplé … also, chipped; as bread.

  3.  Having small pieces chopped or broken off the edges or surface; broken off in small pieces; made by chipping (as prehistoric flint implements).

1863.  A. Tylor, Educ. & Manuf., 47. The supposition of man having lived in caves, using only the most simple tools made from chipped flint.

1865.  Tylor, Early Hist. Man., viii. 195. A set of chipped implements belonging to the comparatively late period of the cromlechs.