Clip \Clip\, n.

1. (Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.

2. (Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

3. A rapid gait. ``A three-minute clip.'' --Kipling.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. i. To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.

Straight flies as chek, and clips it down the wind. --Dryden.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Clip \Clip\, n.

1. An embrace. --Sir P. Sidney.

2. A cutting; a shearing.

3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.

4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. --Knight.

6. (Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak. --Youatt.

7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip. [Colloq. U. S.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Clip \Clip\ (kl[i^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clipped (kl[i^]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Clipping.]

[OE. cluppen, clippen, to embrace, AS. clyran to embrace, clasp; cf. OHG. kluft tongs, shears, Icel, kl[=y]pa to pinch, squeeze, also OE. clippen to cut, shear, Dan. klippe to clip, cut, SW. & Icel. klippa.]

1. To embrace, hence; to encompass.

O . . . that Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about, Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself. --Shak.

2. To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.

Sentenced to have his ears clipped. --Macaulay.

3. To curtail; to cut short.

All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. --Shak.

In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. --Swift.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)