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Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
(2):
(n.) An embrace.
(3):
(n.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
(4):
(v. i.) To move swiftly; - usually with indefinite it.
(5):
(v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
(6):
(v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
(7):
(n.) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
(8):
(n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
(9):
(n.) A rapid gait.
(10):
(n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
(11):
(n.) 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.
(12):
(n.) A cutting; a shearing.
(13):
(n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
(14):
(n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Clip'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/clip.html. 1828.
