NIPPERS

Noun

nippers

plural of nipper

Anagrams

• prespin, snipper

Proper noun

Nippers

plural of Nipper

Anagrams

• 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.

NIPPER

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



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