Chip"ping (?), n.
1.
A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.
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.
The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.
© Webster 1913.