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clipsing

clipsing noun: the act of clasping.

Noun

clipsing (uncountable)

  1. (British, dialectal) The act of clasping.
    • `'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clipsing and colling at all.'1893, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 5th edition, New York: Harpur and Brothers, page 13

Questions about clipsing

What does clipsing mean?
Clipsing means the act of clasping.
What part of speech is clipsing?
Clipsing is a noun.

Words near clipsing in the dictionary

  1. clips the wings of
  2. clipshear
  3. clipshears
  4. clipsheet
  5. clipsheets
  6. clipsing
  7. clipsome
  8. Clipston
  9. Clipstone
  10. clipt
  11. clipweed

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