nippers
plural of nipper
• prespin, snipper
Nippers
plural of Nipper
• prespin, snipper
Source: Wiktionary
Nip"pers, n. pl. Etym: [From 2d Nip.]
1. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
Nip"per, n.
1. One who, or that which, nips.
2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
3. A satirist. [Obs.] Ascham.
4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. [Old Cant]
5. (Zoöl.) (a) The cunner. (b) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2024
(verb) include or contain; have as a component; “A totally new idea is comprised in this paper”; “The record contains many old songs from the 1930’s”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
