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nipa fruticans | nipa palm | nipped | nipper | nipperkin | nippers | nipping | nippingly | nippitate | nippitato | nipple

nippers

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Noun Plural
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nip=pers

CIDE DICTIONARY

nippersn. pl. [From 2d Nip.].
  •  Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

nippers

Retention

N retention, retaining, keep, detention, custody, tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip, fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum, bond, clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice, paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif, bird in hand, captive, retaining, retentive, tenacious, unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated, incommunicable, inalienable, in mortmain, in strict settlement, uti possidetis.


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