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clipping it

clipping it is the present participle and gerund of clip it.

Meaning of clip it

Verb

clip it (third-person singular simple present clips it, present participle clipping it, simple past and past participle clipped it)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) To move swiftly.
    • Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed, / And, with her eagerness the quarry missed, / Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)

Questions about clipping it

What is clipping it the present participle and gerund of?
Clipping it is the present participle and gerund of clip it.

Words near clipping it in the dictionary

  1. clippety-clop
  2. clippety-cloppety
  3. clippie
  4. clippies
  5. clipping
  6. clipping it
  7. clipping someone's wings
  8. clipping the church
  9. clipping the wings of
  10. Clippinger
  11. Clippingers

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