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gippers

gippers is the plural of gipper.

Meaning of gipper

Noun

gipper (plural gippers)

  1. (obsolete except dialectal) One who gips (cleans fish in preparation for curing).
    • One man takes the Herrings out of the Well with the Ladnet, and fils the Gippers baskets. ¶ 9 Gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the Guts, and fling the ful Herring into one Basket, and the ſhotten Herring into another.1641, Simon Smith, The Herring-Busse Trade […], page 9

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Questions about gippers

What is gippers the plural of?
Gippers is the plural of gipper.

Words near gippers in the dictionary

  1. gipper
  2. Gipperism
  3. Gipperite
  4. Gipperites
  5. Gippermania
  6. gippers
  7. gippies
  8. gipping
  9. gippity
  10. gippo
  11. gippoes

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