Clipper is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLIPPER in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a kind of sailing ship
• an instrument for cutting or trimming small pieces off things
• a fast sailing ship, especially one of 19th-century design with concave bows and raked masts
• a microchip which inserts an identifying code into encrypted transmissions that allows them to be deciphered by a third party having access to a Government-held key.
• fast commercial sailing ship
• One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
• A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
• A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing.
• (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
• a fast sailing ship used in former times
• shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural)
• scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that clips

Words related to CLIPPER

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Words that contain CLIPPER

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How to use CLIPPER in a sentence

• A few days afterwards our sociable circle at the hotel was much reduced, and among others the Clipper family departed.
• He caught the Clipper back to Seattle and sat silently for three hours while images and conversations flowed through his mind.
• The Clipper docked mid-afternoon, and he checked in at his home away from home.
• If he lived in a sea-coast town, he might do something with the clipper ships that ran to Europe and China.
• Skyroads with Clipper Williams of the flying legion.
• Roger Murray, and others in an American clipper ship during the years 1846 to 1856.
• When the old clipper ship took from four to six weeks to cross the Atlantic, a weekly paper was printed.
• My father was a sea captain in the old clipper days, and a long time after.
• Many of them were large vessels, with hulls like that of an Aberdeen clipper.
• The little craft was about as near the opposite of a clipper ship as one can imagine, never intended to run in any but fair winds, and even with that her progress was very slow.
• In her own sphere of activity she was as notable an achievement as the Western Ocean packet or the Cape Horn clipper.
• About this time was the first appearance of the celebrated clipper ships.
• This time the clerks evinced no inclination to laugh, such a real ear clipper did Porthos appear.
• The American invention of the fast-sailing schooner or clipper was the more remarkable because, of all American inventions, this alone sprang from direct competition with Europe.
• As his writing declined, Melville sailed again, around Cape Horn to San Francisco on a clipper ship commanded by his brother.
• Fred Harper went to sea when he left school, and was recently appointed master of a fine clipper ship, bound for India.
• The scale of wages for officers and crew aboard a tea clipper was regulated on more aristocratic lines.
• There was once a famous captain of a well-known Australian clipper, a slashing, dare-devil fellow, who made the quickest passages to and from Australia on record.
• Every boy knew the sizes and records of the great ships, and each magnificent clipper had its eager partisans.
• The bow was scarce distinguishable from the stern by its lines, and the masts stuck up straight, without that rake, which adds so much to the trim appearance of a clipper.
• The ship was of the clipper class, though not as sharp as many of this model.

Similar words containing CLIPP without suffix er

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