Nipper

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tool, such as pliers or pincers, used for squeezing or nipping. Often used in the plural.
  • n. A pincerlike part, such as the large claw of a crustacean.
  • n. Chiefly British A small boy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One who, or that which, nips.
  • n. Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
  • n. A child.
  • n. A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
  • n. A mosquito.
  • n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
  • n. A satirist.
  • n. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
  • n. A fish, the cunner.
  • n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
  • n. The claws of a crab or lobster.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who, or that which, nips.
  • n. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
  • n. A satirist.
  • n. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
  • n.
  • n. The cunner.
  • n. A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who nips.
  • n. A satirist.
  • n. A thief; a pickpocket; a cutpurse.
  • n. A boy who waits on a gang of navvies, to fetch them water, carry their tools to the smithy, etc.; also, a boy who goes about with and assists a costermonger.
  • n. One of various tools or implements like pincers or tongs: generally in the plural. , , , ,
  • n. An incisor tooth; especially, one of the incisors or fore teeth of a horse.
  • n. One of the great claws or chelæ of a crustacean, as a crab or lobster.
  • n. Nautical, a short piece of rope or selvage used to bind the cable to the messenger in heaving up an anchor.
  • n. A hammock with so little bedding as to be unfit for stowing in the nettings.
  • n. The cunner, Ctenolabrus adspersus: so called from the way in which it nips or nibbles the hook. Also nibbler. See cut under cunner.
  • n. The young bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix; so called by fishermen because it bites or nips pieces out of the menhaden, in the schools of which it is often found.
  • Nautical, to fasten two parts of (a rope) together, in order to prevent it from rendering; also, to fasten nippers to.
  • n. A dram; nip.
  • n.
  • n. A local name in Australia of species of Alphæus, a genus of prawns.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a young person of either sex
  • n. a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    member    extremity    appendage   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    satirist    pickpocket    claw    pliers    pincers    pinchers    forceps    tenaculum   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dipper    Flipper    chipper    clipper    dipper    flipper    hipper    kipper    lipper    ripper   
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