Chopped ppl. a.¹

Also chopt. [f. CHOP v.¹ and sb.¹ + -ED.]

  1.  Fissured; cracked; CHAPPED ppl. a.¹

1549–62.  Sternhold & H., Ps. lv. 9. When that the earth is chopt and dry, and thirsteth more and more.

1600.  Shaks., A. Y. L., II. iv. 50. Her pretty chopt hands.

1678.  Dryden, All for Love, I. i. Their skarr’d Cheeks, and chopt Hands.

1708.  Phil. Trans., XXVI. 230. His Lips and his Nostrils were chopped.

1854.  H. Miller, Sch. & Schm. (1858), 237. Chopped hands and bleeding fingers.

  2.  Reduced to fragments by chopping; minced.

1548.  Elyot, Thesaurus, Tucetum, a meate made with chopped flesh.

1769.  Mrs. Raffald, Eng. Housekpr. (1778), 67. Roll a good lump of butter in chopped parsley.

1832.  G. R. Porter, Porcelain & Gl., 4. The chopped straw [in bricks].

1853.  Soyer, Pantroph., 63. Coarsely chopped walnuts.

  3.  Of waves: Broken, short and abrupt. Cf. CHOPPING ppl. a.¹ 2, CHOPPY a.¹ 2.

1880.  L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, I. i. (1884), 11. Here chopped waves, there long swells.