Crossword clues for snipping
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act by which something is snipped or cut. 2 A piece cut off; a clipping. vb. (present participle of snip English)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "snipping".
First Teasle touched the scissors to the side of his head, snipping, and Rambo tried, but could not stop himself from flinching.
Yes, she was plainly old, yet the way she moved as she beckoned us in across the huge and empty hall, still snipping those secateurs, you half-expected her to fly.
It had taken six of them to hold him down, and much snipping by the Songman to collect a handful of hair.
The mortician resumed snipping and gumming, shaking his head, grinning like a clown.
Lord Steyne arrived in the evening, he found Becky and her companion, who was no other than our friend Briggs, busy cutting, ripping, snipping, and tearing all sorts of black stuffs available for the melancholy occasion.
But once it had grasped the idea, it enthusiastically went on snipping off thorned twigs until I had many more than I could use.
Lucy Marks was snipping the heads off played-out coneflowers as her husband maneuvered the Kubota in and out of a shed.
Like a pair of explosives experts gingerly snipping through the last two wires of a bomb, we both lowered our stakes and took an unsteady step back.
Even Celestine made it through, the flashing arc snipping off only one of her arms.
Over his hands, Sopp had fitted a pair of massive red snipping claws salvaged from a Grunk, operable from within by a system of conveniently arranged levers, while a dummy abdominal section from a defunct Clute, sprayed to match the over-all color scheme, disguised the short Terran torso.
You didn't have some maniacal woman with a French accent glopping up your head with God knows what, spraying stuff on it, snipping and crimping and whatnot until you wanted to scream.
We had spent about half an hour snipping the topmost shoots off convenient bushes when a young woman in a brick-red lumber jacket and an elegant pair of green trousers strolled across the grass and leveled a small camera at us.
My first two fingers form the snipping blades of a pair of scissors.
Feeling her way along through the empty bedrooms she perceived the continuous rumble of the termites as they carved the wood, the snipping of the moths in the clothes closets, and the devastating noise of the enormous red ants that had prospered during the deluge and were undermining the foundations of the house.