Lexicographical Neighbors of Cliping
Literary usage of Cliping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire and Its by Powys-land Club (1893)
"and that he further told him yt Peate and him did gain six pounds out of eighteen
pounds by cliping, w'ch relac'on was about three years ago, ..."
2. Pennsylvania Archives by Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, George Edward Reed, Pennsylvania State Library, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban (1853)
"... some folks had a nack of cliping Acco", that Ship work was at 12" '$' lb",
and that work, (the Carriage) was worth 18d, &o. &c. ..."
3. An English Settler in Pioneer Wisconsin: The Letters of Edwin Bottomley by Edwin Bottomley (1918)
"... god keep us so Our Thomas send[s] his thanks to his Grandfather for the pressent
he send him and he says he will give his first cliping of wool to stuff ..."
4. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1914)
"... had brought him no liquors from Ipswich said it would be 40s. out of his way
for they stayed for it, "cliping his words as it were in yt speech," etc. ..."
5. A History of the Parish of Trinity Church in the City of New York by Morgan Dix, John Adams Dix, Leicester Crosby Lewis, Charles Thorley Bridgeman, Clifford P. Morehouse (1898)
"... that was lately convict of cliping and coining in this towne. I think proper
to acquaint your Lordships of this circumstance, that you may see how ..."
6. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1904)
"... a Viu Crie [hew and cry] lo Newton after a prisoner wch made an escape, being
accused for cliping or ..."
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