[f. CHIP v.1 + -ER1.] gen. On who or that which chips. b. spec. † A knife used for ‘chipping’ bread (obs.).

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1513.  Bk. Keruynge, in Babees Bk., 266. One knyfe to square trenchoure loues, an other to be a chyppere.

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1616.  R. C[rowley], Times’ Whist., II. 775. Some bread-chipper or greasy cooke.

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1747.  Hooson, Miner’s Dict., E iij. Chippers, those that Dress the Round or Bing Ore.

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1789.  Burns, To Capt. Riddel. Our friends the reviewers, those chippers and hewers.

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1873.  J. Richards, Wood-working Factories, 129. A ship caulker, a chipper, or a carpenter … hardly knows, how the blows of the mallet or hammer are directed to … the chisels or the nails.

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1880.  Academy, 15 May, 366/1. No anthropoid ape at the present day … is a stone-chipper or a bone-cutter.

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  † 2.  Name of a bird. Obs.

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1668.  Sir T. Browne, Wks. (1882), III. 510. Two small birds: the bigger called a chipper, or betulæ carptor.

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