chips

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• Chips

  ·noun A ship's carpenter. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• chips

  The familiar soubriquet of the carpenter on board ship. The fragments of timber and the planings of ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• buffalo chips

  The dry dung of the buffalo, used for fuel on the prairies. Wood is now very scarce, but "buffalo c...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.