Clip

klip, v.t. to cut by making the blades of shears meet to cut off formerly, to debase the coin by cutting off the edges '.—pr.p. clipping pa.p. clipped'. [From the root of Ice. klippa to cut, and allied to A.S. elyppan to embrace, to draw closely.] Clip, klip, «. the thing clipped off, as the wool that has been shorn off sheep