Definition of "Chipping"

Chipping

proper noun
1. A hamlet in Buckland parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3532).
2. A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD6243).
3. Obsolete form of Chepping Wycombe.
  Quotations
  CHIPPING, or Much-Wiccomb, a borough-town of Buckinghamſhire, about ten miles ſouth of Aileſbury...
  1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 192