The action or an act of cutting, clipping, or shaving with shears or some other sharp instrument.

The action of pruning or cutting off the edge, surface, rind, or superficial part of something. Also figurative: the action of removing…

The action of cutting to pieces or cutting away; mutilation.

The action of scraping or cutting off a thin slice from a surface; an abrasion.

; thwiting-knife, ? a paring or scraping knife used by bowyers.

(in quot. attributive).

Adornment, decoration, dressing up; making neat or smart; also cutting, clipping, shearing (literal and figurative); †spec. cutting of the hair (obs…

Cutting or shaving round.

The action of the verb; cutting, clipping. Also with off.

The action of cutting with (or as with) shears or scissors.

The action of snipping or clipping with a pair of scissors or the like; an instance of this. Also figurative.

The act of trimming or condition of being trimmed (cf. trim, v. 9).

(a) the action of the verb (also attributive); (b) concrete (in plural) fragments cut off in whittling, shavings; also figurative.

The action of polling, or clipping off.

Snipping.

The action of the verb in various senses; the result of cutting away below.

The action of nip, v.1 (in various senses); an instance of this.