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woodchipper

noun

Etymology

From wood + chipper.

  1. inherited from *ċippian✻ — “to cut; hew”
  2. inherited from chippen
  3. derived from *ǵeyb-✻ — “to split; divide; germinate; sprout”
  4. inherited from *kippōną✻ — “to chip, chop”
  5. inherited from *kippōn✻ — “to cut; carve; hack; chop”
  6. derived from *ċippian✻
  7. inherited from ċipp — “chip; small piece of wood, shaving”
  8. inherited from chip
  9. formed as chipper — “chip + -er”
  10. compounded as woodchipper — “wood + chipper”

Definitions

  1. A machine for reducing wood to woodchips.

    • Last February, Elon Musk boasted of “feeding USAID into the woodchipper” as President Trump kicked off his second term with an unanticipated assault on the agency.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for woodchipper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA