1. Verb
To embrace, hence; to encompass.
2. Verb
To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
3. Verb
To curtail; to cut short.
4. Verb
To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
5. Noun
An embrace.
6. Noun
A cutting; a shearing.
7. Noun
The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
8. Noun
A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
9. Noun
An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
10. Noun
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.
11. Noun
A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
12. Noun
the act of clipping or snipping
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