clipper
a person or thing that clips or cuts.
Often clippers. (often used with a plural verb) a cutting tool, especially shears: hedge clippers.
Usually clippers. (usually used with a plural verb) a mechanical or electric tool for cutting hair, fingernails, or the like: He told the barber, “No clippers on the sides, please.”
Nautical.Also called clipper ship. a sailing ship built and rigged for speed, especially a type of three-masted ship with a fast hull form and a lofty rig, built in the U.S. from c1845, and in Great Britain from a later date, until c1870, and used in trades in which speed was more important than cargo capacity.
Electronics. a device that gives output only for an input above or below a certain critical value.
a person or thing that moves along swiftly.
Origin of clipper
1Other words from clipper
- un·clip·per, noun
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How to use clipper in a sentence
Strenuous activities leaped into being, aboard the stranded clipper ship.
Cursed | George Allan EnglandWhen the old clipper ship took from four to six weeks to cross the Atlantic, a weekly paper was printed.
The Harris-Ingram Experiment | Charles E. BoltonAs we were leaving for Macào, the clipper ship Witchcraft came in, disabled, as I have recorded in a previous chapter.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas | W. Hastings MacaulayWhilst exercising, a clipper ship passed at some distance from us, bound to southward and eastward.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas | W. Hastings Macaulay"I was saving that name for the handsomest clipper-ship that money could build," he said.
The Skipper and the Skipped | Holman Day
British Dictionary definitions for clipper
/ (ˈklɪpə) /
any fast sailing ship
a person or thing that cuts or clips
something, such as a horse or sled, that moves quickly
electronics another word for limiter
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