To cut off or separate, by striking with a sharp instrument, either by a single blow or by repeated blows; as, to chop off a head; to chop wood.

To cut into small pieces; to mince; as, to chop meat; to chop straw.

To grand and mince with the teeth; to devour eagerly; with up; as, to chop up an entertainment.

To break or open into chinks or fissures; to crack; to chap.

To buy, or rather to barter, truck.

To exchange; to put one thing in the place of another; as, to chop and change our friends.

To bandy; to altercate; to return one word or thing for another. Let not the council chop with the judge.

To turn, vary, change or shift suddenly; as in the seamans phrase, the wind chops, or chops about.

A piece chopped off; a small piece of meat; as a mutton chop.

A crack or cleft. See Chap, which, with the broad sound of a, is often pronounced chap.' .

The chap; the jaw; plu. The jaws; the mouth; the sides of a rivers mouth or channel.