Definitions
scissors for cutting hair or finger nails
Word origin
From Middle English clipper, equivalent to clip (“cut, shorten”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). The type of sailing ship is probably also from clip, in the sense of “move or run rapidly”. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper (“swift horse”), from kleppen (“to clap”), which is onomatopoeic.
Used in a sentence
“And those were the days of clippers, and the freights were clipper-freights,”
“Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will be a clipper.”
“Many a wretch who has been drawn upon a hurdle, has done less mischief than those barterers of forged lies, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Trimming device”7 letters
02“Trimming tool”7 letters
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