chips

The familiar soubriquet of the carpenter on board ship. The fragments of timber and the planings of plank are included among chips.

♦ Chip of the old block, a son like his father.

← chip, to × chirurgeon →

Chips
·noun A ship's carpenter. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
chips
A nick name for a carpenter. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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.