to cut down or chop down completely, typically referring to trees

an expert who is highly skilled in a craft or has a wealth of experience; literally an expert wheelwright

(idiom) to remove superficial showiness and return to a natural or simple state; to eschew ornamentation for the sake of simplicity

to chop off a person's head; to decapitate

to hack through; to cut off or chop through with a blade or axe

to kill with a hatchet, ax, or sword; to hack or chop to death

(literary) slash-and-burn agriculture

to strip bark from a tree

to launch a surprise attack on an enemy camp; to raid a military camp at night

Literary term used to describe someone with highly skilled or superb technique, derived from a story in the classic text [[庄子|莊子|zhuang1 zi3]] where a craftsman chips away a speck of plaster from a man's nose without harming him.