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nippers |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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