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Definition of Nippers

Nippers
Nippers Nip"pers, n. pl. [From 2d Nip.] 1. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting. 2. (Mach.) A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form. 3. (Naut.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
Nipper
Nipper Nip"per, n. 1. One who, or that which, nips. 2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number. 3. A satirist. [Obs.] --Ascham. 4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. [Old Cant] 5. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The cunner. (b) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

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- Nippers are young surf lifesavers, usually aged between 5 and 14 years old, in clubs across Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Unlike senior surf...
- Nippers was a children's book series for early readers established by Leila Berg and published by Macmillan Educational in the United Kingdom from 1968...
- Doritte (Dorothea) Nippers (died 1571), was a Danish woman who was executed for sorcery. Nippers was a widow with one daughter, and a successful hawker...
- inconsistent. Egan Mew follows the evolution of the utensil through: sugar nippers. While these tools shared the name with s****y sugar nips (and were also...
- A ticket punch (or control nippers) is a hand tool for permanently marking admission tickets and similar items of paper or card stock. It makes a perforation...
- Sandfly or sand fly is a colloquial name for any species or genus of flying, biting, blood-sucking dipteran (fly) encountered in sandy areas. In the United...
- ISBN 978-0-7216-0383-4. Tearney, Pat (1 May 2011). "Getting More Out of Your Hoof Nippers". American Farriers Journal. Gregory, Chris (1 January 2011). "A Valuable...
- seagulls. In the 2021 Census of Po****tion conducted by Statistics Canada, Nippers Harbour had a po****tion of 74 living in 34 of its 66 total private dwellings...
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- pincers have perpendicular cutting edges, the pincers are often called end-nippers or end-cutters. They're often used in jewelry making, for trimming flat...