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Chopper   /tʃˈɑpər/   Listen
Chopper

noun
1.
A grounder that bounces high in the air.  Synonym: chop.
2.
Informal terms for a human 'tooth'.  Synonym: pearly.
3.
An aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades.  Synonyms: eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird.
4.
A butcher's knife having a large square blade.  Synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver.






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"Chopper" Quotes from Famous Books



... The chopper walked deliberately to the butt-end of the tree, and with the pole of his axe marked off the length of the log. Then he moistened his hands and drove the keen blade through the juicy ...
— The Fourth Watch • H. A. Cody

... casein is then dried and ready for use. In certain experiments the authors use meat residues instead of a single protein. This they prepare as follows: Fresh lean round of beef is run through a meat chopper and then ground to a paste in a Nixtamal mill, stirred into twice its weight of water and boiled a few minutes. The solid residue is then strained, using cheese cloth, pressed in the hydraulic press and the cake stirred into a large quantity of boiling water. After repeating this ...
— The Vitamine Manual • Walter H. Eddy

... the room stood a rough table, around which were several "seats" made of portions of trunks of trees, hacked into shape with a chopper. A torch stuck in a piece of wood gave a flickering light, around which flew a swarm ...
— The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... talker, too, and told her how they had felled some wonderfully long trees, and how Narcisse was considered the best chopper in the camp, and could make a tree fall within an inch of ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith

... Hartson Brant, then explained, "I'm not really setting a bad example. If you'll look closely, you'll see that the bolt of this chopper is open, the safety is on, and there isn't ...
— The Electronic Mind Reader • John Blaine


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