chip up

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chip up (third-person singular simple present chips up, present participle chipping up, simple past and past participle chipped up)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To cause something to have chips, cracks or dents.
   • 1959, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, A flat iron for a farthing, page 81:

     It were when my father were employed as mason under 'brick and mortar Benson,' as they called him, for repairs of a wall, and they were short of stones, and they chipped up the figure I be telling you of.