Lexicographical Neighbors of Clipes
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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