Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHOP, v.t.² [Sax. ceapian, cypan, to buy or sell. See Cheap.]

1. To buy, or rather to barter, truck, exchange.
2. To exchange; to put one thing in the place of another; as, to chop and change our friends. – L'Estrange.
3. To bandy; to altercate; to return one word or thing for another. Let not the council chop with the judge. – Bacon.