Chipping

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chip

(n.) A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The breaking off in small pieces of the edges of potter's ware, porcelain, etc.

校对:维多利亚

• Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Thirty years ago, the cost of labour for turning a surface of cast iron, by chipping and filing with the hand, was 12s. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I wonder you did not go out of your mind in that smoky London, chipping away at marble and cutting it out. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Pilgrims were too much given to chipping off pieces of it to carry home. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Even of that marble-chipping you call art? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

校对:潘西