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clipshears

clipshears is the plural of clipshear.

Meaning of clipshear

Noun

clipshear (plural clipshears)

  1. (Scotland) Earwig
    • I looked over the stair-windows, however, and saw the back green, which smells of clipshears and clockers, as of yore.1888, David Gray, Josephus Nelson Larned, Life, letters, poems, etc, page 7

Questions about clipshears

What is clipshears the plural of?
Clipshears is the plural of clipshear.

Words near clipshears in the dictionary

  1. clips it
  2. clips someone's wings
  3. clips the church
  4. clips the wings of
  5. clipshear
  6. clipshears
  7. clipsheet
  8. clipsheets
  9. clipsing
  10. clipsome
  11. Clipston

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