| 单词 | a pair of nips |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pair of nips a. Chiefly in plural. An implement which nips; clippers, pincers, tongs, or the like. Also a pair of nips. Cf. nipper n.1 5.In quot. 1699 cant. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > tools used in coining > shears nip1592 1592–3 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1998) (modernized text) XI. 72 2 augers, a chisel, a goudge [sic], and a ‘nippe’. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Nipps, the shears with which Money was won't to be Clipt. 1966 Random House Dict. Eng. Lang. 968/1 Nip,..17. Usually, nips. Nipper (def. 2). 1983 Age (Melbourne) 15 Sept. 2/5 Favorite utensils and props for the laborer at lunchtime include ‘bricks, bar stools, a square of reo, bricky's trowel, and pair of steel-fixer's nips’. 1986 Financial Times (Nexis) 25 Jan. (Weekend FT section) p. xv Six George II teaspoons and a pair of sugar nips, attributed to Francis Harrache, London, circa 1750. < as lemmas |
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