Clip
Clip (klip) , transitive verb
[Old English cluppen, clippen, to embrace, Anglo-Saxon clyran to embrace, clasp; compare Old High German kluft tongs, shears, Icel, klȳpa to pinch, squeeze, also Old English clippen to cut, shear, Danish klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icelandic klippa.]
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.
Clip (klip) , intransitive verb
To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind.
Clip , noun
1.
An embrace. — Sir P. Sidney
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. — Knight
6.
(Farriery) 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. — Youatt
7.
A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloquial United States]
8.
(Machinery) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
9.
(Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scottish & Provincial English]
10.
A rapid gait.
A three-minute clip.