chopping block (chopingblok)

A block on anything ing is laid to be chopped. chopping-board (chop'ing-bord), n. A board on which anything is placed to be chopped. chopping-knife (chop'ing-nif), n. A knife, usually curved and with a cro -handle, for min other food. n. A mill in chopping-mill (chop'ing-mil), which grain is coarsely ground as feed for cattle. chopping-note (chop'ing-not), n. A note in the song of the nightingale. See extract. sounding like "chop, chop," uttered several times in quick The chopping- note is a low-pitched and abrupt note, succe ion, and is intermediate in quality between the truly musical and the simply noisy tones of the night in Applet on's Ann. Cyc., 1886, p. 87. gale.