CHOPPING
- CHOP, to sever with a sharp tool [v]
- weed and thin out (young cotton)
- to cut into or sever usually by repeated blows of a sharp instrument
- cut into pieces often used with up chop up an onion
- cut as if by chopping chop prices a bridge chops the lake in two
- strike (as a ball) with a short quick downward stroke
- subject to the action of a chopper chop a beam of light
- make a quick stroke or repeated strokes with or as if with a sharp instrument (as an ax)
- move or act suddenly or violently