Word Direct Answers

What does "clip" mean?

Clip: To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin. Sentenced to have his ears clipped. Macaulay.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To curtail; to cut short. All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. Shak. In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.
  2. 3.To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it. Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. Dryden.
  3. 4.An embrace. Sir P. Sidney.
  4. 5.A cutting; a shearing.
  5. 6.The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
  6. 7.A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
  7. 8.An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. Knight.
  8. 9.(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. Youatt.
  9. 10.A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]

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