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/klˈɪpər/ Listen

noun

Clipper n.

One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins. "The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket."

A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.

(Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built with a fast hull and tall sails, rigged for fast sailing, and used in trade where the cargo capacity was less important than the speed; called also clipper ship. Note: The name was first borne by "Baltimore clippers" famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.

(Electronics) A circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform.

Synonyms: limiter.

Yankee Clipper,

(a)

a clipper ship built in the United States. See clipper (3).

(b)

Joe DiMaggio; a nickname for the player who was a prominent member of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1940's.

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Etymology of 'Clipper'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clipper" Quotes from Famous Books

... no nae doubt at ye lauoh at havers, an' there's mony 'at lauchs 'at your clipper-clapper, but they're no Thrums fowk, and they canna' lauch richt. But we maun juist settle this matter. When we're ta'en up wi' the makkin' o' humour, we're a' dependent on other fowk to tak' note o' the humour. There's no nane o' us 'at's lauched at anything you've telt us. But ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, November 15, 1890 • Various

... she obeyed orders, this time without even a protest. I smiled grimly. To see her obey suited my humor. It served her right. I enjoyed ordering her about as if I were mate of an old-time clipper and she a foremast hand. She had insulted me once too often and she should pay for it. Out here social position and wealth and family pride counted for nothing. Here I was absolute master of the ...

— The Rise of Roscoe Paine • Joseph C. Lincoln

... plantations of the South barely supply the press with paper; and the messenger of intelligence, the steam-ship, but for coal could not perform its glorious mission. What is to be done, Picton? If every man is willing to give up his morning paper, wear a linen shirt, cross the ocean in a clipper-ship, and burn wood in an open fire-place, ...

— Acadia - or, A Month with the Blue Noses • Frederic S. Cozzens

... equally persistent spells of calm and fog such as we are now passing through. Again, we have had an unusually early appearance of ice in the Atlantic, and most abnormal weather over Central Europe; while in a letter I have just received from an old hand on board a large Australian clipper, he speaks of heavy gales and big seas off that coast in almost the height of ...

— The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century - Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February - 4th and 11th, 1884 • John Ruskin

... not—that is, we know that he is about to sail for St. John's by a clipper now in Belfast, and we shall have a fast steam-corvette ready to catch her in the Channel. He'll be under Yankee colours, it is true, and claim an American citizenship; but we must run risks sometimes, and this is ...

— Lord Kilgobbin • Charles Lever

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