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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).

Meaning of Nippers from wikipedia

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- 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...
- 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...
- edge of nails, pushing and clipping (with a cuticle pusher and cuticle nippers) any nonliving tissue at the cuticle and removing hangnails, treatments...
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- messenger for hauling using some temporary connection such as ropes called nippers. These would be attached and detached as the anchor was pulled up onto...