clip
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).
Inflected forms:
form: clips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clipped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: clips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To grip tightly.
pos: verb
gloss: To fasten with a clip.
pos: verb
examples: Please clip the photos to the pages where they will go.
gloss: To hug, embrace.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: "As how, my lambkin," blushing, she replide, / "Because I in this dancing schoole abide? / If that it be, that breede's this discontent, / We will remoue the camp incontinent: / For shelter onelie, sweete heart, came I hither, / And to auoide the troblous stormie weather; / But now the coaste is cleare, we will be gonne, / Since, but thy self, true louer I haue none." / With that she sprung full lightlie to my lips / And fast about the neck me colle's, and clips ...
What, fifty of my followers at a clap!
When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping, feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace-mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, embolden'd by every freedom he could wish, wantonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his
White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.
gloss: To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
pos: noun
examples: Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
gloss: An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
pos: noun
examples: She reads at a pretty good clip.
He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
gloss: An embrace.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: But finding theſe North climes do coldly him embrace, / Not vſde to frozen clips, he ſtraue to find ſome part, / Where with most eaſe & warmth he might employ his art: […]
gloss: A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
pos: noun
gloss: A removable magazine of a firearm.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
pos: noun
examples: 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels
gloss: A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
Derived words: clippable
clipsome
clip the church
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