[f. CHOP v.2]
1. An exchange, a barter.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, I. 187 (D.). The Duke … drew on the King hardly to make a Chop with those Demeasnes.
2. Chop and change: a change, alteration; cf. CHOP v.2 4.
1759. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, I. xi. Surnames … which, in a course of years, have generally undergone as many chops and changes as their owners.
1835. Marryat, Jac. Faithf., xvi. At last we were all arranged … although there were several chops and changes about, until the order of precedence could be correctly observed.
a. 1845. Hood, To Kitchener, iii. Like Fortune, full of chops and changes.
