The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clip \Clip\, n.
An embrace.
--Sir P. Sidney.A cutting; a shearing.
The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
--Knight.(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.A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
(Mach.) A part, attachment, or appendage, for seizing, clasping, or holding, an object, as a cable, etc.
(Angling) A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
A rapid gait. ``A three-minute clip.''
--Kipling.