Small written vouchers, receipts, or IOUs used as records

• Slips authorizing payment, supplies, or access

The small shoots on seed potatoes or similar tubers

• Early sprouts produced during chitting

Young, small, or insignificant people

• Pert or cheeky young women (dated)

Third-person singular present of chit

• Sprouts or pre-sprouts tubers; nicks seeds to aid germination