chipped

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  1. Having small pieces or flakes broken off; made by a process of chipping: said of stone implements made of flint, jasper, obsidian, and other brittle Stones. Chipped stone implements are generally roughly shaped with a small hammer and then fashioned by chipping or flaking with a bone flaker which is pressed against the surface of the stone, small chips being taken off by pressure. The edges of stone implements are also chipped by nipping. Very unlike … to a set of chipped instruments belonging to the … period of the cromlechs in France and England. E. B. Tylor, Early Hist. of Mankind, viii.

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