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snipping |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: snipping n : a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: {snip}, {snippet}]
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