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Definition of Snips
1. Noun. (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal.
Definition of Snips
1. Noun. (plural of snip) ¹
2. Verb. (third-person singular of snip) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Snips
1. snip [v] - See also: snip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snips
Literary usage of Snips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... Dan in snips, and Asher in his breaches, that is, creeks on the seashore.
Bread. To treat bread. To partake of food. Common in Scripture language. ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"Joaquín Godoy was sent to Europe to endeavor to raise a loan and purchase snips.
Meanwhile people were growing tired of the tyranny and cruelties of the ..."
3. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With by Delany (Mary) (1861)
"I have got a gold coach-and- six papa gave me, and the horses are two dragons,
two sober-sides, and two snips; but you are too big to ride in my coach. ..."
4. A Record of Education: The Schools and Teachers of Dedham, Massachusetts by Carlos Slafter (1905)
"... The "snips bills," at a later day called " sni-bills," formed a sort of hinge,
consisting of two iron pins resembling ..."
5. Six Old English Chronicles, of which Two are Now First Translated from the by Nennius, John Allen Giles, Gildas, Geoffrey, Ethelwerd, John Asser, Charles Bertram (1848)
"... forms a stratagem for sinking Cesar's snips. AFTER two years were expired, he
prepared to cross the sea again, and revenge himself on ..."
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