CHIPPING

Chip″ping (?), n. 1. 1. A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
2. 2. 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.
3. 3. The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.