Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.]

[D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away.

Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. --Fuller.

The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. --De Foe.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Snip \Snip\, n.

1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak.

2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman.

3. A share; a snack. [Obs.]

--L'Estrange

4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley.

5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)