Using a dull axe increases the chances that the axe will rebound forcefully off of chopping surfaces.
All around us, the dorsal fins of large Caribbean reef sharks chop the surface.
Italy, 1962: "In the late afternoon, when the feral cats were sunning themselves on the rocks, a cool spring wind chopped the surface of the sea and Pasquale retreated to the piazza to smoke alone, before the fishermen came to drink.
It was detected in 32 (35.6 %) meat samples, 13 (24.1 %) hand swabs, 5 (9.1 %) knife swabs, and 3 (5.6 %) chopping board surface swabs.
Salmonella was detected in 32 (35.6 %) meat samples, 13 (23.2 %) hand swabs, 5 (9.1 %) knife swabs, and 3 (5.6 %) chopping board surface swabs.
Relatively lower prevalence (5.6 % ) of Salmonella was registered from chopping board surfaces than in meat samples, knife swabs and hands of the meat handlers in this study.
There have been some suggestions that breaches are some form of acoustic signal, used more frequently on windy days when surface chop drowns out more subtle sounds.
The women racing today, for roughly two hours, had to contend physically and psychologically not only with the elements — a strong opposing current, wind chop on the surface, a blazing sun, water high in bacteria — but also with one another, ceaselessly, right up to the last hundredth of a second.
Tattooed forearms chop at the surface.
"All the way down the big board chattered against the surface chop; I could hear the giggle and natter of it over the thunder behind me.
Splaying and transverse crevasses may occur together, chopping the glacier surface into discrete blocks or towers, called seracs.
