klipn.
/klɪp/, U.S. /klɪp/, South African English /klɪp/ South African.
1. A diamond; †micaceous iron ore (quot. 1835). Also, blink klip [Afrikaans blink shining] .
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > iron ore > others
bloodstone1504
haematite1543
yellow share1590
keel1596
brush-ore1678
mush1686
brush-iron-ore1695
iron glance1792
specular iron (also iron ore)1796
steel-ore1796
oligistc1803
black band1811
old man1811
spathose iron-ore1823
pitticite1826
siderose1834
blink klip1835
pharmacosiderite1835
sphaerosiderite1837
fossil ore1846
jacutinga1846
vignite1846
siderite1848
junckerite1865
needle iron-ore1867
xanthosiderite1868
specularite1892
pitch ore1896
minette1902
taconite1905
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [noun]
diamonda1350
adamanta1393
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terra nobilis1882
stone1884
blink klip1887
rock1888
stone1904
prop1914
1835 A. Smith Diary 22 Jan. (1939) I. 225 [The Bechuana] mix fat with the blink klip and rub it over the body in moderate quantities, but in great quantities upon the head.
1887 J. W. Matthews Incwadi Yami xiii. 186 The natives had not yet acquired a knowledge of the value of diamonds or klips as they were then termed.
1892 J. R. Couper Mixed Humanity vi. 48 Flogged to death for stealing a ‘klip’ (as the Dutch and many of the Kaffirs call a diamond).
1893 T. Reunert Diamonds & Gold S. Afr. i. 6 By this time the attention of every one in that neighbourhood was turned to seeking blink klippe..and during the following year several diamonds were picked up.
1897 Pearson's Mag. July 67/1 Fifteen years on that blathted breakwater, just for being found with a few little klips on you.
1911 L. Cohen Reminisc. Kimberley ii. 35 ‘I'll show you the klip. Here it is.’ With that he pulled out his snuffbox..; inside was a fairly sized beautiful octahedron diamond.
1967 L. G. Green Like Diamond Blazing xiii. 144 I met old Hottentots who remembered Luderitz; they said he had two little boxes of blink klippies..and that he carried these diamonds with him.
2. A stone, pebble.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > stone > a stone > [noun] > pebble
chesila700
pebbleOE
pebble stoneOE
gravel-stonec1450
calionc1459
pimble stone1577
rockstone1625
shilly1675
dornick1840
klip1852
jackstone1885
yonnie1941
1852 C. Barter Dorp & Veld vi. 50 Stooping to set large klips (stones) behind the wheel, to prevent the wagon from slipping back.
1899 A. Werner Captain of Locusts 63 She left me when we were on the trek over into Basutoland..and the boys and I could only cut a cross on the thorn-tree..and put a heap of klippies to mark the spot.
Derivatives
klip v. (transitive) to place a stone behind (a wheel) in order to prevent a vehicle from rolling backwards.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > drive a wheeled vehicle > place stone behind wheel
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klip1878
1878 H. A. Roche On Trek in Transvaal iv. 91 We crawling into the wagon, the wheels of which were ‘klipped’, to keep us from running down the hill, trying to nap at intervals.
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