Clip /(klĭp)/

imp. & p. p. Clipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping

1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.

   O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself.

2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.

   Sentenced to have his ears clipped.

3. To curtail; to cut short.

   All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so.

   In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs.

1. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.

   Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.

1. An embrace.
2. A cutting; a shearing.
3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
6. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. (Far.)
7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]
8. A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc. (Mach.)
9. A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. (Angling) [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
10. A rapid gait.