Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chip"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chip \Chip\ (ch[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chipped} (ch[i^]pt);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Chipping}.] [Cf. G. kippen to cut off the
edge, to clip, pare. Cf. {Chop} to cut.]
1. To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape,
by cutting away a little at a time; to hew. --Shak.
2. To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an
eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
3. To bet, as with chips in the game of poker.
{To chip in}, to contribute, as to a fund; to share in the
risks or expenses of. [Slang. U. S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chip \Chip\, v. i.
To break or fly off in small pieces.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Chip \Chip\, n.
1. A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by
an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
2. A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.
3. Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited
in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets.
4. Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used
contemptuously.
5. One of the counters used in poker and other games.
6. (Naut.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log
line.
{Buffalo chips}. See under {Buffalo}.
{Chip ax}, a small ax for chipping timber into shape.
{Chip bonnet}, {Chip hat}, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip.
See {Chip}, n., 3.
{A chip off the old block}, a child who resembles either of
his parents. [Colloq.] --Milton.
{Potato chips}, {Saratoga chips}, thin slices of raw potato
fried crisp.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
chip
n 1: a small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a
bit of rock caught him in the eye" [syn: {bit}, {flake},
{fleck}, {scrap}]
2: (nautical) a triangular wooden float attached to the end of
a log line
3: a piece of dried bovine dung [syn: {cow chip}, {cow dung}, {buffalo
chip}]
4: a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat [syn: {crisp},
{potato chip}, {Saratoga chip}]
5: a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken
off of something [syn: {crack}, {check}]
6: a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when
gambling [syn: {poker chip}]
7: electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a
silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of
electronic functions in an integrated circuit [syn: {microchip},
{micro chip}, {silicon chip}]
8: a low running approach shot [syn: {chip shot}]
9: the act of chipping something [syn: {chipping}, {splintering}]
v 1: break off; of a piece from a whole; "Her tooth chipped"
[syn: {chip off}, {come off}, {break away}, {break off}]
2: cut a nick into [syn: {nick}]
3: play a chip shot, in golf
4: form by chipping; "They chipped their names in the stone"
5: break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a
tooth" [syn: {knap}, {cut off}, {break off}]
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