Definition of Clipes

1. clipe [v] - See also: clipe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clipes

clip joint
clip joints
clip lead
clip strip
clip strips
clipart
cliparts
clipboard
clipboards
clipbooks
clipcock
clipcocks
clipe
cliped
clipes (current term)
clipeus
cliping
clipless
clipmapping
clippable
clipped
clipped speech
clipper
clipper ship
clippers
clippeth
clippety-cloppety
clippie
clippies

Literary usage of Clipes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and hath drawen the sterre of enuy to gon by his side that the clipes of me that shoulde be h's ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"clipes, sb. tongs for holding stones when being lifted by a winch. Clish-ma-claver, .*!i. silly talk; nonsense. ..."

3. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland by William Dickinson (1880)
"clipes, sb. tongs for holding stones when heing lifted by a winch. Clish-ma-claver, sb. silly talk ; nonsense. ..."

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