chipping

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of chip

noun

1. (countable)A fragment broken off a larger object.
2. (uncountable)The act of creating or producing chips, as by breaking something into small fragments, cutting potatoes, removing fragments from pottery, etc.

name

1. A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).
2. A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6243).
3. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of Chepping Wycombe.

   “CHIPPING, or Much-Wiccomb, a borough-town of Buckinghamſhire, about ten miles ſouth of Aileſbury...”