clippern.¹

Brit.

/ˈklɪpə/, U.S.

/ˈklɪpər/

Etymology: < clip v.² + -er suffix¹.

a. One who clips; spec. a sheep-shearer.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer

clippera1382

shearer1388

sheep-shearer1539

forcer1553

fleecer1612

tiger1865

tomahawker1870

snagger1887

boss of the board1896

gun1898

jingling Johnny1904

barrowman1940

ryebuck shearera1957

barrower1965

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > one who or that which cuts

carverc1380

clipper1567

parer1581

trimmer1583

snipper1611

whittler1839

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. liii. 7 As a lomb bifore the clippere itself he shal become doumb.

1567 Act 1 Jas. VI (1597) §19 The clipper [of false money] to haue ane penny of ilk pound.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Concl. 64 Clippers of regal power and shavers of the Laws.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 22 An ordinary clipper will..clippe threescore or threescore and tenne sheepe in a day.

1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 149 Platers, riveters, drillers, clippers.

†b. A hair-dresser or barber. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun]

barberc1330

cutterc1425

clipperc1440

raster cloth1440

poller1578

trimmer1583

dressera1596

shavester1620

razor-chirurgeon1624

suds-monger1638

tonsor1656

hair-man1689

head-dresser1697

friseur1750

hairdresser1771

scraper1791

depilator1836

coiffeur1847

Figaro1864

strap1864

tonsorialist1869

trichotomist1875

nai1883

hair-stylist1935

stylist1937

styler1960

crimper1966

Sweeney1966

scissorsmith2002

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 82 Clyppare, tonsor, tonsatrix.

1483 Cath. Angl. 67 A Clipper, tonsor.

2. spec.

a. One who clips coin; cf. clip v.² 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun] > person who

clipperc1330

rounger?a1400

washerc1450

money batterer?1518

launderer1632

tonsor1697

money-clipper1759

plugger1842

sweater1845

shorter1857

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 238 Of clippers, of roungers, of suilk takes he questis.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxvij/2 Fals money makers & clepars of maney.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 226 Tis no treason to cut French crownes, For to morrow the king himselfe wil be a clipper.

1691 J. Locke Money in Wks. (1727) II. 93 Whilst clipp'd Money passes, Clippers will certainly be at Work.

1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 404 Five persons..were carried..to York Castle, on suspicion of being clippers and coiners.

1884 A. Griffiths Chron. Newgate 105 Three other clippers..were found to be in possession of £400 in clippings.

b. figurative.

ΚΠ

1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 90 Speak truth..and shame the Divell; for he is the old Clipper of speaches.

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. i. 16 Barterers of forged lies, 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 plural scissors, shears, etc. (see quots.).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun]

steelOE

edge-toola1375

graver1548

clipper1578

cutter1631

chipper1879

society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun]

shearc725

abscissor?a1425

scissors?a1425

scissorsa1425

forcets1474

snippers1593

forfex1712

snipe1819

clipper1876

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxxiii. 436 A yellowe flower..in the midle whereof ye may see a thing like to a little clipper.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Clipper..a machine for clipping hair..especially used for horses.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Clippers, scissors.

1884 Queen 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.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > swift horse

courserc1300

stirring horse1477

runnera1500

stirrer1570

spanker1814

ganger1817

ginger1825

clipper1836

traveller1889

speeler1893

pelter1899

1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st ser. xv. 139 A four year old colt,..a genuine clipper, could gallop like the wind.

1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 95 Away she gallops..faster than Turpin's ride to York, On Bess that notable clipper!

1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry iv What a clipper that off-horse is!

1887 H. 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.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > types of fast sailing vessel

carvel1462

caravel1527

yachta1584

fly-boat1590

calvara1592

lorcha1653

runner1699

scampavia1723

clipper1824

clipper-ship1853

fruit-clipper1864

heeler1864

tea-clipper1895

1824 W. N. Blane Excursion 33 At this port [sc. Baltimore] are built those long sharp schooners celebrated under the name of the Baltimore Clippers.

1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xiii. 184 She must be a clipper as catches us!

1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. viii. ix. 407 Aberdeen clippers became famous.

1884 Harper'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 adj.² c.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing

carbunclea1350

swanc1386

phoenixc1400

diamondc1440

broocha1464

surmounterc1500

sovereign?a1513

primrose peerless1523

superlative1577

transcendent1593

Arabian birda1616

crack1637

first rate1681

peach1710

phoenicle1711

admiration1717

spanker1751

first-raterc1760

no slouch of1767

nailer1806

tip-topper1822

ripper1825

ripstaver1828

apotheosis1832

clinker1836

clipper1836

bird1839

keener1839

ripsnorter1840

beater1845

firecracker1845

pumpkin1845

screamer1846

stunner1847

bottler1855

beaut1866

bobby-dazzler1866

one out of the box1867

stem-winder1875

corker1877

trimmer1878

hot stuff1884

daisy1886

jim-dandy1887

cracker1891

jim-hickey1895

peacherino1896

pippin1897

alpha plus1898

peacherine1900

pip1900

humdinger1905

bosker1906

hummer1907

good egg1914

superstar1914

the berries1918

bee's knee1923

the cat's whiskers1923

smash1923

smash hit1923

brahma1925

dilly1935

piss-cutter1935

killer1937

killer-diller1938

a hard act to follow1942

peacheroo1942

bitch1946

brammerc1950

hot shit1960

Tiffany1973

bollocks1981

1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st ser. xx. 198 She was a real handsum looking gall;..a real clipper, and as full of fun and frolic as a kitten.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xvi. 138 I never saw your equal [Beck], and I've met with some clippers in my time.

1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xii. 124 Wasn't Reynolds a clipper..! and wasn't Rubens a brick?

1873 Slang Dict. Clipper..applied..as a term of encomium to a handsome woman..Anything showy or first-rate.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby 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).

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > an aircraft

air machine1783

aerostat1784

air vessel1824

aircraft1845

aerobat1879

flyer1880

clipper1887

machine1896

avion1898

aerocar1910

1887 tr. J. Verne Clipper of Clouds vii. 67 The Albatross might be called a clipper with thirty-seven masts.

1914 G. Hamel & C. C. Turner Flying vii. 134 Down from our Clipper of the Clouds we get.

1933 Flight 19 Jan. 51 America's New ‘Clippers’..are being constructed for Pan-American Airways.

1936 Meccano 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.

1951 A. Christie They came to Baghdad iii. 29 Will you be returning to New York..by the clipper?

Compounds

C1. General attributive. (In sense 4.)

clipper-bow n.

ΚΠ

1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 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 a clipper-built vessel.

clipper-builder n.

ΚΠ

1881 Daily Tel. 5 July 2/2 Superbly modelled craft, whose lines would have made the old Baltimore clipper-builders green with envy.

clipper-built adj.

ΚΠ

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 7 A small, clipper-built brig.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Clipper Clipper-built, Sharp and fast; low in the water; rakish.

C2.

clipper-ship n. = 4b.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > types of fast sailing vessel

carvel1462

caravel1527

yachta1584

fly-boat1590

calvara1592

lorcha1653

runner1699

scampavia1723

clipper1824

clipper-ship1853

fruit-clipper1864

heeler1864

tea-clipper1895

1853 Ann. Reg. 130 These fast vessels have received the name of ‘clipper-ships’.

1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xx. §817 It is these winds and waves which..have enabled the modern clipper-ship to attain a speed..at first..considered fabulous.

clipper-sled n. a sledge built for rapid travelling.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of people

sled1590

sledge1617

traineau1653

sleigh1703

pulka1746

booby-hutch1766

Tom Pung1799

cutter1803

pung1804

kibitka1806

booby-hack1820

pulk1831

booby1841

sleigh-cutter1846

clipper-sled1883

1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/2 A large..sled..twice as wide and twice as long as your clipper-sled.

Draft additions June 2014

Electronics. A circuit that reduces the amplitude of larger signals to some predetermined maximum; a limiter.

ΚΠ

1938 U.S. Patent 2,113,224 1/1 These [noise reduction] systems have generally involved the use of means for balancing or neutralizing the effect of the impulses which tend to produce noise.., a limiter or peak clipper, [etc.]

1970 Single Sideband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) iii. 52 Diode switching is used throughout, and there is a novel rf clipper which doesn't require an extra sideband filter.

2003 R. J. Herrick DC/AC Circuits & Electronics xv. 814 A clipper clips off a portion of a waveform using diodes. A limiter limits the maximum and/or minimum signal value using diodes, varistors, and other voltage-limiting devices.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	clipper
释义	clippern.¹ Brit. /ˈklɪpə/, U.S. /ˈklɪpər/ Etymology: < clip v.² + -er suffix¹. 1. a. One who clips; spec. a sheep-shearer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer clippera1382 shearer1388 sheep-shearer1539 forcer1553 fleecer1612 tiger1865 tomahawker1870 snagger1887 boss of the board1896 gun1898 jingling Johnny1904 barrowman1940 ryebuck shearera1957 barrower1965 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [noun] > one who or that which cuts carverc1380 clipper1567 parer1581 trimmer1583 snipper1611 whittler1839 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. liii. 7 As a lomb bifore the clippere itself he shal become doumb. 1567 Act 1 Jas. VI (1597) §19 The clipper [of false money] to haue ane penny of ilk pound. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. Concl. 64 Clippers of regal power and shavers of the Laws. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 22 An ordinary clipper will..clippe threescore or threescore and tenne sheepe in a day. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 149 Platers, riveters, drillers, clippers. †b. A hair-dresser or barber. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun] barberc1330 cutterc1425 clipperc1440 raster cloth1440 poller1578 trimmer1583 dressera1596 shavester1620 razor-chirurgeon1624 suds-monger1638 tonsor1656 hair-man1689 head-dresser1697 friseur1750 hairdresser1771 scraper1791 depilator1836 coiffeur1847 Figaro1864 strap1864 tonsorialist1869 trichotomist1875 nai1883 hair-stylist1935 stylist1937 styler1960 crimper1966 Sweeney1966 scissorsmith2002 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 82 Clyppare, tonsor, tonsatrix. 1483 Cath. Angl. 67 A Clipper, tonsor. 2. spec. a. One who clips coin; cf. clip v.² 4. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > mutilating coin > [noun] > person who clipperc1330 rounger?a1400 washerc1450 money batterer?1518 launderer1632 tonsor1697 money-clipper1759 plugger1842 sweater1845 shorter1857 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 238 Of clippers, of roungers, of suilk takes he questis. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxvij/2 Fals money makers & clepars of maney. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. i. 226 Tis no treason to cut French crownes, For to morrow the king himselfe wil be a clipper. 1691 J. Locke Money in Wks. (1727) II. 93 Whilst clipp'd Money passes, Clippers will certainly be at Work. 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 404 Five persons..were carried..to York Castle, on suspicion of being clippers and coiners. 1884 A. Griffiths Chron. Newgate 105 Three other clippers..were found to be in possession of £400 in clippings. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1637 Abp. J. Williams Holy Table 90 Speak truth..and shame the Divell; for he is the old Clipper of speaches. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal ii. i. 16 Barterers of forged lies, 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 plural scissors, shears, etc. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > [noun] steelOE edge-toola1375 graver1548 clipper1578 cutter1631 chipper1879 society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] shearc725 abscissor?a1425 scissors?a1425 scissorsa1425 forcets1474 snippers1593 forfex1712 snipe1819 clipper1876 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lxxxiii. 436 A yellowe flower..in the midle whereof ye may see a thing like to a little clipper. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Clipper..a machine for clipping hair..especially used for horses. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Clippers, scissors. 1884 Queen 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.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > swift horse courserc1300 stirring horse1477 runnera1500 stirrer1570 spanker1814 ganger1817 ginger1825 clipper1836 traveller1889 speeler1893 pelter1899 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st ser. xv. 139 A four year old colt,..a genuine clipper, could gallop like the wind. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 95 Away she gallops..faster than Turpin's ride to York, On Bess that notable clipper! 1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry iv What a clipper that off-horse is! 1887 H. 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.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > types of fast sailing vessel carvel1462 caravel1527 yachta1584 fly-boat1590 calvara1592 lorcha1653 runner1699 scampavia1723 clipper1824 clipper-ship1853 fruit-clipper1864 heeler1864 tea-clipper1895 1824 W. N. Blane Excursion 33 At this port [sc. Baltimore] are built those long sharp schooners celebrated under the name of the Baltimore Clippers. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xiii. 184 She must be a clipper as catches us! 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. viii. ix. 407 Aberdeen clippers became famous. 1884 Harper'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 adj.² c. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing carbunclea1350 swanc1386 phoenixc1400 diamondc1440 broocha1464 surmounterc1500 sovereign?a1513 primrose peerless1523 superlative1577 transcendent1593 Arabian birda1616 crack1637 first rate1681 peach1710 phoenicle1711 admiration1717 spanker1751 first-raterc1760 no slouch of1767 nailer1806 tip-topper1822 ripper1825 ripstaver1828 apotheosis1832 clinker1836 clipper1836 bird1839 keener1839 ripsnorter1840 beater1845 firecracker1845 pumpkin1845 screamer1846 stunner1847 bottler1855 beaut1866 bobby-dazzler1866 one out of the box1867 stem-winder1875 corker1877 trimmer1878 hot stuff1884 daisy1886 jim-dandy1887 cracker1891 jim-hickey1895 peacherino1896 pippin1897 alpha plus1898 peacherine1900 pip1900 humdinger1905 bosker1906 hummer1907 good egg1914 superstar1914 the berries1918 bee's knee1923 the cat's whiskers1923 smash1923 smash hit1923 brahma1925 dilly1935 piss-cutter1935 killer1937 killer-diller1938 a hard act to follow1942 peacheroo1942 bitch1946 brammerc1950 hot shit1960 Tiffany1973 bollocks1981 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1837) 1st ser. xx. 198 She was a real handsum looking gall;..a real clipper, and as full of fun and frolic as a kitten. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xvi. 138 I never saw your equal [Beck], and I've met with some clippers in my time. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xii. 124 Wasn't Reynolds a clipper..! and wasn't Rubens a brick? 1873 Slang Dict. Clipper..applied..as a term of encomium to a handsome woman..Anything showy or first-rate. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby 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). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > an aircraft air machine1783 aerostat1784 air vessel1824 aircraft1845 aerobat1879 flyer1880 clipper1887 machine1896 avion1898 aerocar1910 1887 tr. J. Verne Clipper of Clouds vii. 67 The Albatross might be called a clipper with thirty-seven masts. 1914 G. Hamel & C. C. Turner Flying vii. 134 Down from our Clipper of the Clouds we get. 1933 Flight 19 Jan. 51 America's New ‘Clippers’..are being constructed for Pan-American Airways. 1936 Meccano 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. 1951 A. Christie They came to Baghdad iii. 29 Will you be returning to New York..by the clipper? Compounds C1. General attributive. (In sense 4.) clipper-bow n. ΚΠ 1863 A. Young Naut. Dict. (ed. 2) 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 a clipper-built vessel. clipper-builder n. ΚΠ 1881 Daily Tel. 5 July 2/2 Superbly modelled craft, whose lines would have made the old Baltimore clipper-builders green with envy. clipper-built adj. ΚΠ 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast iv. 7 A small, clipper-built brig. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. at Clipper Clipper-built, Sharp and fast; low in the water; rakish. C2. clipper-ship n. = 4b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel propelled by sail > [noun] > types of fast sailing vessel carvel1462 caravel1527 yachta1584 fly-boat1590 calvara1592 lorcha1653 runner1699 scampavia1723 clipper1824 clipper-ship1853 fruit-clipper1864 heeler1864 tea-clipper1895 1853 Ann. Reg. 130 These fast vessels have received the name of ‘clipper-ships’. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) xx. §817 It is these winds and waves which..have enabled the modern clipper-ship to attain a speed..at first..considered fabulous. clipper-sled n. a sledge built for rapid travelling. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of people sled1590 sledge1617 traineau1653 sleigh1703 pulka1746 booby-hutch1766 Tom Pung1799 cutter1803 pung1804 kibitka1806 booby-hack1820 pulk1831 booby1841 sleigh-cutter1846 clipper-sled1883 1883 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/2 A large..sled..twice as wide and twice as long as your clipper-sled. Draft additions June 2014 Electronics. A circuit that reduces the amplitude of larger signals to some predetermined maximum; a limiter. ΚΠ 1938 U.S. Patent 2,113,224 1/1 These [noise reduction] systems have generally involved the use of means for balancing or neutralizing the effect of the impulses which tend to produce noise.., a limiter or peak clipper, [etc.] 1970 Single Sideband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) iii. 52 Diode switching is used throughout, and there is a novel rf clipper which doesn't require an extra sideband filter. 2003 R. J. Herrick DC/AC Circuits & Electronics xv. 814 A clipper clips off a portion of a waveform using diodes. A limiter limits the maximum and/or minimum signal value using diodes, varistors, and other voltage-limiting devices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022). clippern.² Brit. /ˈklɪpə/, U.S. /ˈklɪpər/ Etymology: < clip v.¹ + -er suffix¹. He who or that which clips or clasps; in plural = clip-hook n. at clip n.¹ Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > hook hookc900 haspedec1400 cleek1426 cleek-staffc1440 cramp1503 hock1530 gib-crook1564 cramp-iron1565 gib1567 cramper1598 bench hook1619 crampon1660 wall-hook1681 dressing hook1683 woodcock-eye1796 doghook1821 click1846 clipper1849 ice hook1853 witchetty1862 slip-hook1863 snap-hook1875 clip-hook1882 pelican1890 snake hook1944 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Clippern.³ Brit. /ˈklɪpə/, U.S. /ˈklɪpər/ Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Computing and Telecommunications. In full Clipper Chip. A microchip which inserts an identifying code into encrypted transmissions that allows them to be deciphered by a third party having access to a Government-held key.Developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, and proposed by the U.S. Government as a compulsory standard for data encryption technology. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > central processing unit > types of processor microcomputer1956 multiprocessor1961 uniprocessor1963 microchip1969 microprocessor1969 microcontroller1971 micro1978 transputer1978 coprocessor1980 RISC1980 Clipper1993 1993 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News 17 Apr. 11 d/2 The technology..is a computer chip called the Clipper Chip that scrambles a telephone call or computer message using a secret algorithm. 1993 Sci. Amer. Aug. 97/1 Clipper, as the chip is named, sends out a string of bits called a law enforcement field. Its purpose is to enable the police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to decode conversations that they wiretap pursuant to court order. 1994 Computing 9 June 3/3 The US government is shrugging off reports that its controversial Clipper encryption technology is fatally flawed. 1997 Internet World Jan. 18/1 Privacy advocates quickly savaged it as another incarnation of the widely derided Clipper Chip initiative. 2001 Amer. Spectator (Nexis) June Vice President Gore called for forcing the ‘Clipper Chip’ into every PC. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clipperv. Forms: Also Clipper. Etymology: < clipper n.¹ U.S. colloquial. a. transitive. To send by clipper (see clipper n.¹ 4b). ΚΠ 1941 Time (Air Express ed.) 8 Sept. 23/1 The first copy of his latest book was Clippered to Time. 1941 Time (Air Express ed.) 29 Sept. 36/3 Manila doctors Clipper X-ray films to U.S. specialists. 1942 O. Nash Good Intentions 93 Yon titled refugee Whose dollars Clippered here with he. b. intransitive. To travel by clipper. ΚΠ 1941 Collier's 20 Dec. 52/1 Wang and I clippered over [to Hawaii] to handle it ourselves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹c1330n.²1849n.³1993v.1941
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