clips

Noun

clip (plural clips)

1. Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
   • Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
2. An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
   • She reads at a pretty good clip.
3. (obsolete) An embrace.
   • But finding theſe North climes do coldly him embrace, / Not vſde to frozen clips, he ſtraue to find ſome part, / Where with most eaſe & warmth he might employ his art: […]c. 1580s, Philip Sidney, “Astrophel and Stella”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie...
4. A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
5. (colloquial, proscribed) A removable magazine of a firearm.
6. A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
   • The heel - clips are two clips at the heels of the side bars , which correspond to the toe - clip ; the latter embracing the toe of the crust , whilst the former embrace its heels1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

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