1. chipping - Noun
2. chipping - Verb
Derived from chip
4. Chipping - Proper noun
of Chip
A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone to shape.
The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. Elbert Hubbard
So many I considered, closest to me, turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully, although that knife was chipping away at me, they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep. Mariah Carey
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form. Will Self
Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression. Eric Cantor
Kernik had stumbled on an immutable truth, a truth older than the world. Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them from stone. Secondly, and more importantly, by believing in them, believing in them utterly. Tanith Lee
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts. Ree Drummond