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单词 snipper
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snippern.

Brit. /ˈsnɪpə/, U.S. /ˈsnɪpər/
Etymology: < snip v.
1. plural. A machine or instrument for snipping or clipping; scissors.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun]
shearc725
abscissor?a1425
scissors?a1425
scissorsa1425
forcets1474
snippers1593
forfex1712
snipe1819
clipper1876
1593 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Middlesex (Camden) Pref. p. xiv They have snippers wherewith they snyppe and pare their plates, which snippers..are so artificially placed,..that by the mocion of the water also the snippers open and shut.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. ii. 202 When in Iosephus we heare a childe all to rent with biting snippers.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A paire of snippers, een snip-schaerken.
2. One who snips or clips; spec. a tailor.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor
seamsterc995
tailor1297
parnterc1400
parmenterc1450
pricklouse?a1513
Tom Tailor1575
stitcher1589
scissor man1593
cutter1599
snip1600
snipper1611
shred1616
needleman1621
fashioner1631
snip-snappera1632
sartor1656
nipshred1661
stult1675
cabbage1694
linen-armourer1699
stitch1699
snip-cabbage1708
tire-man1709
knight of the needlea1777
stay-tape1785
schneider1796
needle-jerker1801
skip-louse1807
darzi1809
cross-legs1823
tog-maker1901
knight of the shears-
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > one who or that which cuts
carverc1380
clipper1567
parer1581
trimmer1583
snipper1611
whittler1839
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tondeur, a sheerer,..barber, vermine-snipper.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Knipper,..a Snipper.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een snipperaer, a Snipper or a Cutter off.
1684 J. Dryden tr. L. Maimbourg Hist. League Postscr. 35 As our Snippers go over once a year into France, to bring back the newest Mode, and to learn to cut and shape it.
1827 Lancet 10 Nov. 223/2 For the snippers of broad cloth and calf-skin I had little compassion.
1865 S. Evans Brother Fabian's MSS 156 You'd be delighted to murder the snipper Who measures my waist for a skirt.
3. A cattle-dealer on a small scale.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in cattle
cattle-dealer1824
Saldanier1838
snipper1869
outrider1872
scalper1930
1869 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Sept. 12 The snippers and provincial jobbers..furnish the raw material to the Aberdeen dealers and butchers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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