Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CHOP, n.¹

1. A piece chopped off; a small piece of meat; as, a mutton chop.
2. A crack or cleft. See Chap, which, with the broad sound of a, is often pronounced chop.
3. The chap; the jaw: plur. the jaws; the mouth; the sides of a river's mouth or channel. [See Chap.]
4. In China, a permit or stamp.