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Clip   /klɪp/   Listen
noun
Clip  n.  
1.
An embrace.
2.
A cutting; a shearing.
3.
The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
4.
A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
5.
An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
6.
(Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; called also toe clip and beak.
7.
A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. (Colloq. U. S.)
8.
(Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
9.
(Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
10.
A rapid gait. "A three-minute clip."


verb
Clip  v. t.  (past & past part. clipped; pres. part. clipping)  
1.
To embrace, hence; to encompass. "O... that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself."
2.
To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. "Sentenced to have his ears clipped."
3.
To curtail; to cut short. "All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so." "In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs."


Clip  v. i.  To move swiftly; usually with indefinite it. "Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind."





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... north, there seem to be three strata of language. In the valleys the Italian was pure, resonant, and foreign to me. There dwell the townsmen, and they deal down river with the plains. Half-way up (as at Frangi, at Beduzzo, at Tizzano) I began to understand them. They have the nasal 'n'; they clip their words. On the summits, at last, they speak like northerners, and I was easily understood, for they said not 'vino' but 'vin'; not 'duo' but 'du', and so forth. They are the Gauls of the hills. I told them so, and they ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc
... of princes! How much cross-grained wood a little gypsum covers! a little carmine quite beautifies! Wet your forefinger with your spittle; stick a broken gold-leaf on the sinciput; clip off a beggar's beard to make it tresses; kiss it; fall down before it; worship it. Are you not irradiated by the light of its countenance? Princes! princes! Italian princes! Estes! What matters that costly ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... again half quelled by the power she felt in the man. From the streets below came up the constant roll of wheels and 'clip-clop' of hoofs from passing broughams, intermingled now and then with shouts and shrill whistles telling of early departures from sundry ...
— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey
... Vincent, you're off in high gear, all right. Matrimony and gushers, all at one clip! Lemme get my breath. Have you put ...
— Torchy and Vee • Sewell Ford
... canine assistant, Ladie. Arrived among the flock, the shepherd pointed out a diseased animal; and making the accustomed signal for the dog to capture it, "poor Mailie" was speedily sprawling on her back, and gently held down by the dog till the arrival of her keeper, who proceeded to clip off a portion of her wool, and apply the healing balsam. During the operation, Ladie continued to gaze on the operator with close attention; and the sheep having been released, he was directed to capture ...
— Anecdotes of Dogs • Edward Jesse


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