EGAVE

clipper

About 0.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Anything or anyone that clips.
  2. noun A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
  3. noun Something that moves swiftly; especially: Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem. An Alberta clipper.
  4. noun Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem.
  5. noun An Alberta clipper.
  6. noun An Asian butterfly of species Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae.
  7. noun A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
  8. noun A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges.

Similar words

limiter clipper ship sailing yacht earclip clip bread clip snipper stripper clip nail clipper

Often followed by

ship ships and chip was of to is in

Word family

clipper system clipper systems clippers

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