[f. as prec. + -ING2.]

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  1.  That chips; see the verb. In quot. = germinating (obs. ? dial.).

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1743.  W. Ellis, Mod. Husbandm., Nov., i. 5. The chipping Part of the Wheat, as we call it in Hertfordshire.

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  2.  Comb. as chipping-bird, a small species of sparrow (Zonotrichia socialis) common in the United States; chipping-squirrel = CHIPMUCK.

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1849.  Thoreau, Week Concord Riv., Tues. 205. The chipping or striped squirrel.

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1865.  [see CHIPMUCK].

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1869.  J. Burroughs, in The Galaxy, VIII. Aug., 168. The chipping-bird.

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