chop

IPA(Pronunciation)

/t͡ʃɒp/

Verb

obsolete

(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap. / To chap or crack. / (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly. / (obsolete) To twist words. / To converse, discuss, or speak with another.

Japanese Meaning

（古語）交換する、物々交換する / ひび割れさせる、ひびが入る / （航海用語で）急に方向を変える、変動する / （古語）言葉を曲げる、捻じ曲げる / （他者と）会話する、議論する

What is this buttons?

At the old market, villagers would chop grain for cloth without using coins.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

昔の市場では、村人たちは金銭を使わずに穀物を布と物々交換していた。

Details

Sense（1）

(obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.

this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance.

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