bulldog clip

Noun

bulldog clip (plural bulldog clips)

1. A binder clip with rigid handles.
   • We need to remind children that magnetic compasses will be deflected from the north reading if near metal – for example a car, a metal bulldog clip on a clipboard, or a metal bar under a table.1996, Marcia Foley, Jan Janikoun, The Really Practical Guide to Primary Geography (Really Practical Guides), 2nd edition, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Stanley Thornes, published 2002, →ISBN, page 83
   • If weight carriers are not available use a strong bulldog clip with a pot attached to it by thread going through the hole. Clip this to the sheet of paper and gradually add weights to the pot. The bulldog clip sometimes slips off the paper, so wrap the end of the paper around a pencil and the...2000, “The Properties of Materials and Their Everyday Uses”, in Colin Osborne, Maria Pack, editors, compiled by Jan Rees, That’s Chemistry!: A Resource for Primary School Teachers about Materials and...
2. A surgical instrument with serrated jaws and a spring-loaded handle used to grip blood vessels or similar organs.
   • When filled, a bulldog clip-forceps on the india-rubber tube, close to the canula, will prevent the escape of the water on transferring the syringe to position.1886, Harrison Cripps, “TRANSFUSION”, in Christopher Heath, editor, Dictionary of Practical Surgery […], volumes II (Macroglossia–Zygoma), London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 660, column 1
   • Objections to the bulldog clip are that, in students' hands at least, it is more likely to do damage and lead to clotting than is the thread-loop, and that, on account of its small size and liability to be left by the student in the wound, it is apt to be lost, e.g. thrown away with the carcase...1919, C[harles] S[cott] Sherrington, “Appendix”, in Mammalian Physiology: A Course of Practical Exercises, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press; Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 142