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▪ I. clip, v.1|klɪp|
Forms: 1 clyppan, (clioppen, cliopen), 2 -en, 3–4 cluppe(n, 4 clep(pe, 4–6 clyppe, clyp, clepe, 4–7 clipp(e, (5 clype, klyppe), 4– clip.
[OE. clyppan weak vb.:—OTeut. type *kluppjan: cf. OFris. kleppa in same sense (‘cleppa and kessa’ Richthofen); North Fris. klêbin to kiss (Johansen); also ON. klýpa to ‘clip’, pinch, and Ger. kluppe ‘barnacles, corntongs’, OHG. chluppa tongs, clamp, split stick to grasp or hold. Outside Teutonic, Hildebrand in Grimm, s.v. klafter, compares Lith. glôbti to embrace, and OSlav. glibnjati, glŭběti to be seized.]
1. a. trans. To clasp with the arms, embrace, hug. arch. and dial.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Mark ix. 36 Clioppende [Rushw. cliopende] wæs. c1000ælfric Gen. xxix. 13 Ða aras he toᵹeanes and clypte hine. a1240Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 185 He openeþ swa þe moder hire earmes hire leoue child for to cluppen. c1300Beket 288 Hi custen hem faste and clupte. c1320R. Brunne Medit. 152 Hys fete..he cleppeþ, and swetly kysseþ. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 1169 He kisseth hire and clippeth hire ful ofte. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 343 A wulf was founde clippende the hedde of seynte Edmunde. 1460Lybeaus Disc. 578 That oon held..A mayde yclepte yn hys arme. c1500Bk. Mayd Emlyn in Poet. Tracts (1842) 27 Bycause he coude clepe her, She called hym a whypper. 1581T. Howell Deuises (1879) 229 Venus sonne, whom she doth clip and kisse. 1607Shakes. Cor. i. vi. 29 Let me clip ye In Armes as sound, as when I woo'd in heart. a1701Sedley Poems Wks. 1722 I. 19 He like the Bear of Love, her Body Clips. c1840Hood Ballads, ‘What can an old man do’, Love will not clip him. 1877N.W. Lincolnsh. Gloss. s.v., ‘I seed 'em clippin' an cuddlin' one another agëan th' pin-fold.’
b. fig.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xli. 298 Ðes worldgilp..þe hie clyppað & lufiað. 1508Fisher Wks. 67 We..studyously..clyppe and in maner kysse it [sin]. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Ecl. v. ii, The warmer sunne..With firie arms clipping the wanton ground. 1819B. Cornwall Dram. Sc., Julian the Apost. ii, Shall the grave Clip us for ever in its chilling arms.
c. transf. Said of amplexicaul leaves.
1597Gerard Herbal i. cv. §3. 174 Large leaves..clipping or embracing the stalke round about.
d. with advb. or prep. complement.
c1320R. Brunne Medit. 932 She clypped hyt up on here brest. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. ix. (1495) 763 Serpentes wrappyth and clyppyth themself togyder. c1530Spirit. Couns. F vij, That fynally I maye clyppe the to me.
e. absol. and intr.
c1305Land Cokayne 173 in E.E.P. (1862) 161 Þilk monk þat clepiþ best..Of him is hope..To be sone uadir abbot. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xxi. 464 Cluppe we in couenaunt and ech of ous cusse oþer. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 63 That wife.. which clepeth with her adulterer. 1587Mirr. Mag., Sabrina xxi. 3, I fast mine armes about her clipt did make. 1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 645 A swarm of Bees..a Baytree did attain, Where leg in leg they cleaped fast [pedibus per mutua nexis].
2. trans. To surround closely, encircle, encompass, ‘hug’. Also with about, in.
c825Vesp. Psalter xlvii[i]. 12 Ymbsellað sion and clyppað hie. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. iv. (1495) 31 Aungels..ben soo clypped wyth the habyte of vertues. 1587Golding De Mornay iii. 36 The dreadfull Sea which cleaps the same [the Earth] about. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. i. 2 As Amphitrite clips this Iland Fortunate. 1781Cowper Expostulation 551 Yon fair sea, That clips thy shores. 1830Tennyson Poems 125 A snake her forehead clips. 1842Sir H. Taylor Edwin v. v. (D.), The Northmen..clipped us round at Stoke.
3. a. To grip tightly, clutch, hold in a tight grasp.
a1000Cædmon's Gen. 1569 (Gr.) Heafodswima heortan clypte. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 147 The mekill barge had nocht thaim clyppyt fast. 1513Douglas æneis xi. xiii. 169 The happy goishalk, we se..The sylly dow..he clyppis at the last. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 319 When grace was done, The Bolle in hande she clipt. 1801W. Felton Carriages I. 100 The standard-plates..clip..the transom. 1868W. Collins Moonst. I. 298 Some soft yellow stuff, that..clipped her tight (in the form of a jacket) round the waist.
absol.1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 188 Powere hem failleth To clucche or to clawe, to clyppe or to holde. 1796Coleridge Destiny Nations, The air clipp'd keen, the night was fang'd with frost.
b. To fasten with a clip or clips.
1902E. Banks Newspaper Girl 244 Page after page passed from under her pen. Then, clipping a dozen sheets together, she read them over. 1908Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 9/4 Permanently fixed instead of clipped-on fittings. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 220 He turned to the man, who was clipping a tiny mirror on to his bayonet. 1955E. Bowen World of Love v. 84 She turned her head..clipped on earrings.
▪ II. clip, v.2|klɪp|
[ME. clipp-en, at first northern, and prob. a. ON. klipp-a (Norw., Sw. klippa, Da. klippe) in this sense. In same sense also LG. has klippen (Schütze), Fris. (Wangeroog), klip-pen, N.Fris. klappen, kleppen.
The ON. and LG. klippa, klippen, was prob. identical with LG. klippen to make a sharp sound, cited under clip v.3, the application being transferred, as in clack, click, clank, clink, clap, from the sound to associated sharp actions; senses 6, 7, and clip n.2 4, show that the notion of cutting is not inseparable from the word. There may also have been onomatopœic influence: in the utterance of clip, as of snip, there is a cut-short effect, which aptly suits the act.]
1. trans.
a. To cut with scissors or shears, often with the notion of making trim and tidy. Also (chiefly U.S.), to cut out (a passage) from a newspaper or periodical; to excerpt.
b. To cut or snip (a part) away, off, out, from.
c1200Ormin 4106 To clippenn swa þe cnapess shapp. 1393Gower Conf. II. 318 Out he clippeth..Her tunge with a paire of sheres. c1532G. Du Wes in Palsgr. (1852) 956 To clyppe heares, tonser. 1535Coverdale Jer. xlviii. 37 All heades shall be shauen, and all beerdes clipped [1611 clipt] off. 1608Shakes. Per. (Globe) v. iii. 74 This ornament..will I clip to form. 1618Bolton Florus ii. xv. 135 The matrons clipt the haire of their heads to make cordage for engins. 1650Fuller Pisgah 404 God, twice as it were..clipt the treasures of the Temple with the cisers. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 195 Dress up..your Strawbery Beds, clipping away all their Runners. 1709Steele Tatler No. 112 ⁋2 [He] clipped the Wings..of his innocent Captives. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. v. (1872) 154 To clip off a bit of his eloquent tongue. 1872Harper's Bazaar 6 Jan. 11 The following marriage notice is clipped from a Texas paper. 1873C. Robinson N.S. Wales 59 The following paragraphs, clipped from the..Morning Herald. 1884Law Times 301/2 The man at the gate did not detain him to clip his ticket. 1904N.Y. Even. Post 10 Sept. 4 A suggestion for a college girl's vacation that should be clipped and pasted for reference next June. 1953Encounter Nov. 5/1 He shifted to the weekly news-magazine..and began to clip stories. 1962Listener 4 Oct. 529/2 The famous ‘Americana’ column which clipped from the regional press absurdities of all kinds.
absol.1798Southey Eng. Eclogues 1, Tell me where to clip.
fig.c1200Ormin 4248 Uss birrþ clippenn all aweȝȝ Þe flæshess fule wille. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. ii. iii. 149 The father's hour of rapture clips Hate from the heart.
c. To form or mark by clipping.
1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1549/4 Stollen..a Black Brown Nag..an R clipp'd on the near Buttock.
d. phr. to clip the wings of: lit. to cut (a bird's) wings short so as to disable it from flight; hence, to check any one's aspirations or ambition, cripple his strength, resources, or action.
1590Marlowe Massacre Paris iii. ii, Away to prison with him! I'll clip his wings. 1599Marston Sco. Villanie iii. viii. 213 Ist possible such sensuall action Should clip the wings of contemplation? 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 161 To clip the Wings Of their high-flying Arbitrary Kings. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 339 If he could not succeed in clipping the wings of his restless neighbour. 1874Blackie Self-cult. 10 To clip the wings of our conceit.
2. spec. To cut the hair off; to poll.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 140 Wel koude he laten blood and clippe and shaue. c1400Apol. Loll. 95 Ȝe schal not..clip þe hed in to round. 1535Coverdale Jer. xvi. 5 No man shall clippe or shaue himselff for them. 1686J. Serjeant Hist. Monast. Convent. 39 They are brought to the Monastery, and then washed, clipped, and shaved. 1859Jephson Brittany viii. 131 Hair-merchants..travel through the country, clipping the heads of the peasant-girls.
3. spec.
a. To shear (sheep); to cut off (their fleece or wool).
c1200Ormin 1189 Þe shep onfoþ Meocliȝ, þatt mann itt clippeþþ. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxxi. 19 Laban was goon to the sheep that shulden be clippid. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. 8 §14 The same Wooll..[shall] be as it is clipped. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §44 Yf your shepe be newe clypped. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 516 Like a lamb when it is clipped, he [i.e. Christ] was silent. 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 128 The price is..expected to fall..as soon as the flocks are clipped.
absol.c1420Pallad. On Husb. i. 1164 Toles forto gelde and clype and shere. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 20 A faire day the day before hee clippe, that the wooll may bee dry. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 149 Women were sitting close under the wall, also clipping.
b. To yield on being clipped.
1879Wrightson in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 238/1 There were..sheep in the pen that would clip as much or more wool.
4. spec.
a. To mutilate (current coin) by fraudulently paring the edges.
1494Fabyan vii. 386 The Kynges coygne..was clypped and washed in suche wyse that it was therby wonderfully mynysshed. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 126 There should be no deceyt used by diminishing or clipping y⊇ same. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2352/4 Such as clip and deface His Majesty's Coyn. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 620 To clip the coin was one of the..most profitable kinds of fraud.
b. absol.
1508Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) II. 222 In theyr wretchyd ryches to abounde, They clyp, they coyne. a1734North Lives II. 241 A fellow was accused for clipping. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 623 The practice of clipping.
5. fig.
a. To cut short, curtail, diminish.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 603 Hol. Iudas I am, ycliped Machabeus. Dum. Iudas Machabeus clipt, is plaine Iudas. 1628Prynne Cens. Cozens 66 He pares, and clips the Scripture. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) I. ii. iv. 66 Pfalz must be reinstated, though with territories much clipped.
b. spec. To cut (words) short; to omit by indistinct or hurried utterance syllables and parts of words; to pronounce imperfectly.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 158 Not clipping the syllables, not skyppyng ony worde. 1642J. Taylor God's Judgem. ii. vii. 99 He [the Drunkard] shall lispe and clip his English. 1755Mem. Capt. P. Drake II. iii. 81 He was pretty far overcome by the Champaign, for he clipped the Queen's English. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. xxvi, (1885) 291 Clipping her words in her vehemence.
c. absol. and intr.
1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide iv. 76 Why pilfer you from my words? Why clip you? 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., The day begins to clip. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v. Clip, ‘The days clip off sorely; we shall hev winter here afore we know where we are.’
d. To reduce, cut down; spec. of a speed-record or the like (freq. const. off).
1938J. Hilton To you, Mr. Chips i. 40 The craze for clipping fifths of seconds raged elsewhere. 1947Wodehouse Full Moon ix. 195 He did not know what the European record was..but he rather fancied that he had clipped a few seconds off it. 1957― Over Seventy v. 65 That..is how your grandfather clipped six seconds off Roger Bannister's mile.
6. intr. To move the wings rapidly; to fly rapidly. Also to clip it. arch.
1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. i, O yee blessed Muses!.. Whose truest lovers never clip with age. 1635Quarles Embl. iii. xii. (1718) 173 If she springs away The wings of vengeance clip as fast as they. Ibid. v. xiii. (D.), How I would spring from earth, and clip away. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. 86 Some falcon..flies at check and clips it down the wind. 1850H. Coleridge Poems II. 115 Wavy motion as, on wings unfurled, A seraph clips Empyreal.
7. intr. (colloq.) To move or run quickly. Cf. cut. U.S.
1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xii (1859) 281 He clipped into the water with the speed of light. 1837–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 46 He sees a steam-boat a clippin it by him like mad. 1843–4― Sam Slick in Eng. viii. (Bartlett), I ran all the way, right down as hard as I could clip. 1886Harper's Mag. Nov. 835/2 All that he could do was to take to his heels and clip down the steps and into the pung. 1897S. Hale Lett. (1919) 317 Though he had to row at first, the wind soon sprang up and we were clipping along. 1924Mulford Rustlers' Valley xxvi. 283 Now and then searching bullets clipped and sung below him.
8. trans. To hit smartly. colloq.
1855‘Q. K. Philander’ Doesticks xii. 99, 97's engineer clipped one of 73's men with a trumpet. 1880T. Q. Couch E. Cornwall Gloss. 90 Klip, to strike or cuff. ‘I klipped 'en under the ear.’ 1961New Statesman 1 Dec. 826/1 After hearing of the incidents in which his boy had been concerned he had ‘clipped him round the earhole’. 1963Times 7 Feb. 3/3 A straight full toss which Bradman clipped back to the sight-screen.
9. To swindle; to rob, steal. (Cf. fleece v. 3.) slang (orig. U.S.).
1927Vanity Fair Nov. 134/3 When a patron in a night club is ‘clipped’ he isn't punched, he's ‘taken’ or ‘gypped’ out of some currency or he is overcharged. 1932J. Sayre Rackety Rax xvi. 132 He [sc. Capone] clipped the Doc in a deal. 1937D. Runyon More than Somewhat 13 Here I am out to clip Miss Amelia Bodkin of her letters and her silverware. 1949W. R. Burnett Asphalt Jungle (1950) vi. 40 He'd just been clipped for thirteen hundred. 1958Observer 15 June 14/3 A commination against London taxi drivers, delivered with the fervour of a guy who'd really been clipped. 1968H. Waugh Con Game xix. 158 I'm not holding still like some people while their buddy-buddy pals clip them for nine thousand bucks.
Add:[1.] e. Computing. To process (a displayed image) so as to remove those parts that lie outside a specified area. Also absol.
1968[implied in *clipping vbl. n.2 1 b]. 1973Newman & Sproull Princ. Interactive Computer Graphics vii. 121 Ideally the information that is passed to the display should be clipped, i.e. restricted to just those parts that lie on the screen. 1982[see viewport n. 2]. 1982Computerworld 8 Nov. 87/2 An engineer can execute..functions such as real zoom or scale, translate, clip, rotate, [etc.]. 1984Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Jan. 69/4 The DM-40 also will clip, window, viewport and scale to six size.
▸ trans. N. Amer. slang. To kill, esp. by shooting.
1927in Amer. Speech (1928) 3 254 He might ‘clip’ a ‘harness bull’ who got hep to him. 1930J. Lait Put on Spot xiv. 112 He spilled..who clipped Kinky King, why and how. 1987J. D. Pistone Donnie Brasco xii. 206 A wiseguy does not go around asking who clipped the boss. 2003National Post (Toronto) 19 Mar. (Arts & Life section) 5/3 The best bit of reporting I've yet seen on why the U.S. doesn't just clip Saddam and get it over with.
▪ III. † clip, v.3 Obs.
Also 5 clyppen, cleppen.
[Cf. OFris. klippa, kleppa to ring (a bell), LG. klippen to sound, resound, EFris. klippen to clink, etc., Ger. dial. kliffen to yelp:—orig. type klip(p)jan, f. root klip(p)-, in ablaut relation to *klap(p -: see clap and clepe v.]
To clink, to ring (a bell).
c1440Promp. Parv., Cleppyn or clynchyn (Pynson 1499, clippyn or clynkyn), Tinnio. Clepyng (MS. 1490 cleppynge or clyngynge of a bell).—Clynkyn supra in clyppyn.
▪ IV. † clip, v.4
[Erroneously curtailed from clips v., the final s being taken as inflexional. So EFris. klip, klips.]
= eclipse.
c1400Destr. Troy 426 The clere Sune neuer clippit out of course yet, But whan Criste on the crosse for our care deghit. 1480Robt. Devyll (1798) 21 The cloudes had in clypped [in Hazl. E.P. Poetry I. 238 y-clypped] the sunne of grace. 1549Compl. Scotl. vi. 56 The soune is maid obscure til vs quhen it clips.
▪ V. clip, n.1|klɪp|
Forms: 5–6 clipp(e, 6 clyp, 6– clip.
[f. clip v.1]
†1. An embrace. Obs.
[1560Nice Wanton in Hazl. Dodsley II. 180 Cards, dice, kiss, clip, and so forth.] 1581Sidney Astr. & Stella (1622) 533 Not vsde to frozen clips. a1683Oldham Poet. Wks. (1686) 120 If her fond clip With loose embraces oft his Neck surround.
2. a. That which clips or clasps; an instrument or device which clasps or grips objects tightly and so holds them fast, e.g.
A grappling-iron; an appliance for suspending a pot, that has no bail, by its ears or cleats; in Fishing, a gaff or cleek (Sc.); in Carriages, the embracing-strap which connects the springs and axle; in Farriery, a projecting flange on the upper surface of the toe of a horse-shoe, which clasps the front of the hoof; a spring-holder for letters or papers, etc.
c1470Henry Wallace x. 855 Athir [ship] othir festynyt with clippys keyn. 1559Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 183 In the kitchin..three yron crookes..thre paire of yron clippes. 1594Churchw. Acc. Shrewsbury Abbey in Miss Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Three clypes of iron for settynge to the newe pylpitt vjd. 1737in Ramsay Sc. Prov. (1776) 52 (Jam.) May be your pot may need my clips. 1791–9Statist. Acc. Moray VII. 557 (Jam.) Long iron hooks, here called clips, are used for catching the fish. 1801W. Felton Carriages 102 A clip..is placed over the axletree, and secures it in the bed to which it is bolted, and is also used for other purposes. 1831Youatt Horse xxi, Clips are..necessary on the shoes of all heavy horses. 1854J. Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 36 A spring clip for holding the objects under examination. 1865J. G. Bertram Harvest Sea v. (1873) 114 A landing-clip or gaff, such as is used in salmon-fishing, is useful. 1881G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk., Clip, a clamp of iron perforated at each end..applied as a bandage to a weak or fractured part of an implement. 1888W. Rye Records, etc. 13 Clips like music-books with springs at the back..are better than a loose portfolio.
b. Croquet. A marker which may be clasped on a particular hoop to indicate it.
1872R. Prior Croquet 49 Sets..without a cross-bar to the pegs to fix a clip upon. 1875J. Heath Croquet Player 23 The best clips..are made with a spring, so that the player has only to release his hold, and the clip, closing, fastens itself on the hoop.
c. transf. and fig.
1676Grew Anat. Plants iv. i. i. §13 Of every pair of Leaves, the half of one is reciprocally received between the two halfs of another, and may therefore be called the cleep. 1877G. Saintsbury in Academy 10 Feb. 113 The peculiar clip which keeps the characters of a novel together.
d. A receptacle containing several cartridges held together at the base for insertion bodily into the magazine of a repeating fire-arm.
1901‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness vii. 146 The clip containing the cartridges for the Mauser rifle holds five rounds. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 651/2 The clip, employed in the Mannlicher system, is used with a magazine with parallel walls. Ibid. 654/1 The loading by clip. 1966D. F. Galouye Lost Perception iii. 30 The rifle discharged an entire clip.
e. A piece of jewellery that is fastened by a clip; spec., an earring.
1937C. Beaton Diary 3 June in Wand. Years (1961) 310 Wallis, wearing a black dress and her huge diamond pear clips. 1940N. Mitford Pigeon Pie i. 9 Mrs. Holst..only has the mingiest little diamond clip you ever saw. 1950‘J. Guthrie’ Is this what I Wanted? vii. 110 Pearl clips set off the ears, which were her most delicate feature. 1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 114 Mummy was wearing her black costume with the diamond shoulder clip.
3. attrib. and Comb., with the sense ‘that has, or acts as, a clip’; as in clip-drum, clip-lens, clip-washer; clipboard, a tablet of wood or other material bearing a spring-clip at one end for holding papers, etc.; clip-chair, a chair used on some railways to secure the rail to a metallic sleeper; clip-hook, a hook closing with a clip or spring (cf. clipper, clevis2 b); clip-loader, a clip-loading fire-arm; clip-loading vbl. n., the loading of a repeating fire-arm with cartridges in a clip (see 2 d); clip-plate, the axle-hand of a wheel.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 380/1 The ‘*clip’ boards for patience and bridge... This board is fitted with nickel clamps on each side to keep it perfectly rigid. 1921Instructions for Aerological Observers (U.S. Weather Bureau) 88 A simple apparatus which has proved to be both accurate and speedy is constructed as follows: It consists of an 11 × 13 inch clip board, upon which is mounted a celluloid or hard bristol-board backing. 1959M. Bradbury Eating People is Wrong ii. 66 Treece found the driving test office and went in to look for the examiner. He..was clutching a clipboard.
a1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., The *clip chair is of horse-shoe shape, one side forming a hook about 2 1/4{pp} wide, and the other side is like one jaw of an ordinary railway chair for taking a wooden railway key.
1861Times 11 July, A simple..eight-horse engine..stationed at one corner of a field, with a *clip drum on a separate pair of carriage wheels placed beside.
1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 129 *Clipp hooks for the tack to hook to.
1879Rutley Study Rocks vi. 45 This *clip-lens is..better than a watch-maker's eye-glass.
1901Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 285/1 The most perfect *clip-loader so far produced.
1901Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 4/3 The weapon to be adopted in the immediate future for the British Army..must positively admit of *clip loading. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 654/2 A clip-loading repeating rifle.
1868Daily Tel. 3 July, A 12-inch shell..struck the 15-inch portion of the target..damaging a *clipwasher, and breaking a 2½-inch bolt.
▪ VI. clip, n.2|klɪp|
[f. clip v.2]
1. pl. Shears (esp. for wool).
1681Inv. in Biggar & House of Fleming (1862) 63 Ane pair of clipes 20/. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 181 A pair of clips, a graip, a flail. 1782Burns Poor Mailie's Elegy vi, A bonnier fleesh ne'er cross'd the clips.
2. a. That which is clipped or cut: a clipping.
1863Atkinson Provinc. Danby, Clip, a short piece cut off; e.g. a pattern of cloth or calico.
b. spec. The whole quantity of wool shorn in any place, or in one season.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v., ‘Farmer A. had but a very moderate clip this year.’ 1842J. Bischoff Woollen Manuf. II. 94 The clip of 1827 is large. 1867Times 18 Nov. 7/2 Every prospect of an abundant clip.
c. An extract from a motion picture.
1958Listener 3 July 30/2 Film clips from Jose Ferrer's film ‘Moulin Rouge’. 1959H. Nielsen Fifth Caller xii. 188 She stared at the blowup of an old newsreel clip.
3. An act of clipping or shearing.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Clip, the act of shearing. 1885Birmghm. Daily Post 5 Jan. 6/6 Higher prices must naturally be expected between now and the next clip. Mod. colloq. I've just been having a clip at the barber's.
4. A smart blow, stroke, or ‘cut’. Also fig.
1830Marryat King's Own xxvi, The master fires..and hits the cat a clip on the neck. 1837–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 89 He made a pull at the old fashioned sword..and drawin it out he made a clip at him. 1847–78Halliwell, Clip, a blow or stroke. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Clip, a blow or stroke with the hand; as ‘He hit him a clip’. 1869Mrs. Stowe Oldtown Folks xx. 243 When you didn't mind, I hit you a good clip. 1886J. C. Harris in Century Mag. Jan. XXXI. 426/1 I'm a great mind to hit him a clip jest to show you how he can go on. 1913G. S. Porter Laddie xvii. 568 Robert..wasn't a smidgin behind, for every clip he had the answer ready.
5. A (specified) rate of speed; a rapid pace or motion. colloq.
a1867H. Woodruff Trotting Horse (1868) vi. 79 It is believed that he can go a four-minute clip. 1877E. Peacock Gloss. Manley 61/2 We are goin' wi' a clip now. 1893Field 25 Feb. 295/3 In three days I could drive him any ‘clip’ I chose by just talking to him. 1901Westm. Gaz. 31 Aug. 6/3 As Shamrock returned the wind increased and the challenger with a magnificent burst of speed travelled at a 12-knot clip. 1941H. MacInnes Above Suspicion xv. 150 God, that dog can keep up a terrific clip. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. iii. 10/1 Romance and marriage among corporations is rolling along at a torrid pace... The brisk clip continues this year.
6. attrib. and Comb., as clip-mark n.; clip-marked, clip-winged adjs.; clip-collector, one who collects for customers newspaper cuttings upon any special subject; clip-house, a clipping-house (q.v.); clip-shears (Sc. dial.), an earwig.
1888Pall Mall G. 19 May 4/1 Messrs. Curteis, the clip collectors.
1567Acts Jas. VI (1814) 45 (Jam.) That *clip-houssis [ed. 1597, §19 clipping-houses] be maid within evyry burcht quhair neid requiris.
1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4236/8 A *clip Mark N.A. on each side her Rump.
1683Ibid. No. 1859/8 A brown Gelding..*Clip-marked with I.D. upon both his Buttocks.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 152 A *clip-wing'd Griffin, and a moulten Rauen.
▪ VII. † clip, a. Obs.
[Possibly related to clip v.2 (Cf. clean and clink = ‘completely’, in S. Chesh. Gloss. 1887.)]
In the phrase clip and clean = EFris. klip un klâr (see Doornkaat-Koolman II. 267), with the somewhat vaguely defined sense of ‘Trim, ship-shape, in proper order, ready’.
1710W. Mather Yng. Man's Comp. (1727) 75 Take the first, second, or third Quils in the Wing of a Goose or Raven (those that are round, clip and clean, are the best). |