CLIPPER


Meaning of CLIPPER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

nail clippers

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

nail

At his own suggestion, Reg said Singh had personally removed that clause from my contract with his nail clippers .

It was like trimming a lawn with nail clippers .

First, use nail clippers rather than scissors to cut the mails.

ship

But the days of clipper ships were numbered.

The big ocean-going booms with their kite sails were becoming as rare as square-rigged schooners or clipper ships .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Are they coming to mow the lawn or to liberate the hostages with rakes, clippers and blowers?

But the days of clipper ships were numbered.

Many of the best racing clippers were therefore composite built.

One of them with interior décor of a nineteenth-century sailing clipper .

Trim the toenails by cutting straight across with a toenail clipper .

We were losing money in the teaching business because of the cost of the clipper blades.

While he hauls up his boat, Annie gets her clippers.

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