chip up

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)To cause something to havechips,cracksordents.1959, Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing,A flat iron for a farthing, page81: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 theychipped upthe figure I be telling you of.

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