2. Verb. (third-person singular of clip) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clips
1. clip [v] - See also: clip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clips
Literary usage of Clips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paving Brick and Paving Brick Clays of Illinois by Charles Wesley Rolfe, Ross C. Purdy, Arthur Newell Talbot, Ira Osborn Baker (1908)
"The clips—In previous experiments it was learned that the Standard Fairbanks clips,
... Special clips were therefore made to fit the briquette. ..."
2. Paving Brick and Paving Brick Clays of Illinois by Charles Wesley Rolfe, Ross C. Purdy, Arthur Newell Talbot, Ira Osborn Baker (1908)
"The clips—In previous experiments it was learned that the Standard Fairbanks clips,
... Special clips were therefore made to fit the briquette. ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... tho ends of the legs of which are hooked, to hold fast the girdle. The clips
is linked on a hook at the end of a chain, called the crook. ..."
4. The Monotype System: A Book for Owners & Operators of Monotypes by Lanston Monotype Machine Company (1912)
"Thus, if the work being set contains accents, clips for these accented letters
would be placed over the BUTTONS, for characters of the same width, ..."
5. Wilson's Photographics: A Series of Lessons, Accompanied by Notes, on All by Edward Livingston Wilson (1881)
"After the sheets are thus silvered or sensitized, they are hung in a closet or
drying-box, by means of clothes-clips at the corners, to be thoroughly dried. ..."
6. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1870)
"the table B adjustable frames x are placed, which carry tho clips A. These clips
support the knives j, and may be adjusted by set screws, according to the ..."
7. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1888)
"knife-edges, is made to pass through time axis of the clips wimen these are clamped.
The bearing surfaces of time clips upon the briquettes are rounded, ..."
8. Affray at Brownsville, Tex by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs (1907)
"Q. There were no clips in that box?—A. Oh, now, speaking about clips, they might
have been there with the shells, because we gather the shells and clips and ..."
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