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toe clip

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.

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

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

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