'Saratoga chips' definitions:
Definition of 'Saratoga chips'
From: GCIDE
- Chip \Chip\, n.
- 1. A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Wood or Cuban palm leaf split into slips, or straw plaited in a special manner, for making hats or bonnets. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously. [1913 Webster]
- 5. One of the counters used in poker and other games. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Naut.) The triangular piece of wood attached to the log line. [1913 Webster]
- Buffalo chips. See under Buffalo.
- Chip ax, a small ax for chipping timber into shape.
- Chip bonnet, Chip hat, a bonnet or a hat made of Chip. See Chip, n., 3.
- A chip off the old block, a child who resembles either of his parents. [Colloq.] --Milton.
- Potato chips, Saratoga chips, thin slices of raw potato fried crisp. [1913 Webster]