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▪ I. clipper, n.1|ˈklɪpə(r)|
[f. clip v.2 + -er1.]
1. a. One who clips; spec. a sheep-shearer.
1382Wyclif Isa. liii. 7 As a lomb bifore the clippere itself he shal become doumb. 1567Act 1 Jas. VI (1597) §19 The clipper [of false money] to haue ane penny of ilk pound. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (1856) 21 An ordinary clipper will..clippe threescore, or threescore and tenne, sheepe in a day. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Conclus., Clippers of Regal Power, and shavers of the Laws. 1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 149 Platers, riveters, drillers, clippers.
†b. A hair-dresser or barber. Obs.
c1440Promp. Parv. 82 Clyppare, tonsor, tonsatrix. 1483Cath. Angl. 67 A Clipper, tonsor.
2. spec.
a. One who clips coin; cf. clip v.2 4.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. 238 Of clippers, of roungers, of suilk takes he questis. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 176 Fals money makers and clepars of money. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 246 It is no English Treason to cut French Crownes, and to morrow the King himselfe will be a Clipper. 1691Locke Money Wks. 1727 II. 93 Whilst clipp'd Money passes, Clippers will certainly be at Work. 1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 404 Five persons..were carried..to York Castle, on suspicion of being clippers and coiners. 1884A. Griffiths Chron. Newgate 105 Three other clippers..were found to be in possession of {pstlg}400 in clippings.
b. fig.
1636Abp. Williams Holy Table (1637) 90 Speak truth..and shame the Divell; for he is the old Clipper of speaches. 1777Sheridan Sch. Scand. ii. i, Utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
3. That which clips, applied to various clipping or cutting instruments, e.g. a reaping or pruning hook, and in pl. scissors, shears, etc. (see quots.).
1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxxiii. 436 A yellowe flower..in the midle whereof ye may see a thing like to a little clipper. 1874Knight Dict. Mech., Clipper..a machine for clipping hair..especially used for horses. 1876Whitby Gloss., Clippers, scissors. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 148 The women..clipped them [the sheep]..with huge scissors or clippers.
4. One who or that which clips, moves swiftly, or scuds along; (cf. clip v.2 7).
a. A swift horse. (Sometimes more indefinitely, as in c.)
1840Hood Kilmansegg xcii, Away she gallops..faster than Turpin's ride to York, On Bess, that notable clipper. 1856G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Cov. iv, What a clipper that off-horse is! 1887H. Smart Cleverly Won v. 38 No one will ever know what a clipper she is till they see her over a steeplechase course.
b. A fast-sailing vessel; one with sharp, forward-raking bows and masts raking aft: ‘formerly chiefly applied to the sharp-built raking schooners of America, and latterly to Australian passenger-ships’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.).
1830Marryat King's Own xiii, She must be a clipper as catches us! 1846A. Young Naut. Dict. (L.), Clipper..a sharp-built vessel whereof the stem and stern-post, especially the former, have a great rake..This kind of bow is termed a clipper bow, and a vessel so built a clipper, or clipper-built vessel. 1862Smiles Engineers viii. ix. II. 407 Aberdeen clippers became famous. 1884Harper's Mag. Jan. 223/1 The first clipper..was the Rainbow..built about the year 1843..for the China trade.
c. slang. Applied in praise to a person or thing excellent or first-rate of its kind. Cf. clipping ppl. a.2 c.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair xvi. (1853) 125, I never saw your equal [Beck], and I've met with some clippers in my time. 1854― Newcomes I. 124 Wasn't Reynolds a clipper!.. And wasn't Rubens a brick? 1873Slang Dict., Clipper..applied..as a term of encomium to a handsome woman..Anything showy or first-rate. 1876Robinson Whitby Gloss., Clipper, a clever person. ‘A clipper at talking.’
d. An aerial vessel; an aircraft, or flying-boat, esp. one used for trans-oceanic flights (also used with capital initial as a trade-name in this sense).
1887tr. J. Verne's Clipper of the Clouds vii. 67 The Albatross might be called a clipper with thirty-seven masts. 1914Hamel & Turner Flying vii. 134 Down from our Clipper of the Clouds we get. 1933Flight 19 Jan. 51 America's New ‘Clippers’..are being constructed for Pan-American Airways. 1936Meccano Mag. Aug. 432 Flying Giant Clippers of the Air... The ‘China Clipper’ climbing above San Francisco Bay at the beginning of her flight to China. 1951A. Christie They came to Baghdad iii. 29 Will you be returning to New York..by the clipper?
5. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 4) clipper-bow, clipper-builder, clipper-built; also clipper-ship = clipper 4 b; clipper-sled, a sledge built for rapid travelling.
1881Daily Tel. 5 July 2/2 Superbly modelled craft, whose lines would have made the old Baltimore *clipper-builders green with envy.
1840R. Dana Bef. Mast iv. 7 A small, *clipper-built brig. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v. Clipper, Clipper-built, Sharp and fast; low in the water; rakish.
1853Ann. Reg. 130 These fast vessels have received the name of ‘*clipper-ships’. 1860Maury Phys. Geog. Sea xx. §817 It is these winds and waves which..have enabled the modern clipper-ship to attain a speed..at first..considered fabulous.
1883Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/2 A large..sled..twice as wide and twice as long as your *clipper-sled.
▪ II. clipper, n.2|ˈklɪpə(r)|
[f. clip v.1 + -er1.]
He who or that which clips or clasps; in pl. = cliphook, in clip n.1 3.
1851Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & D. 15 Clippers, the hook used, in sinking, to attach the rope to the corf, when..required to be sent to the surface, or down the pit.
▪ III. clipper, v. U.S. colloq.
Also Clipper.
[f. clipper n.1]
a. trans. To send by clipper (see clipper n.1).
b. intr. To travel by clipper.
1941Time (Air Exp. Ed.) 8 Sept. 23/1 The first copy of his latest book was Clippered to Time. Ibid. 29 Sept. 36/3 Manila doctors Clipper X-ray films to U.S. specialists. 1941Collier's 20 Dec. 52/1 Wang and I clippered over [to Hawaii] to handle it ourselves. 1942O. Nash Good Intentions 93 Yon titled refugee Whose dollars Clippered here with he. |