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nippering

nippering is the present participle and gerund of nipper.

Meaning of nipper

Verb

nipper (third-person singular simple present nippers, present participle nippering, simple past and past participle nippered)

  1. (transitive) To seize (two ropes) together.

See all 18 meanings of nipper

Questions about nippering

What is nippering the present participle and gerund of?
Nippering is the present participle and gerund of nipper.

Words near nippering in the dictionary

  1. nipped in the bud
  2. nipped in the butt
  3. nipper
  4. Nipper's Harbour
  5. nippered
  6. nippering
  7. nipperkin
  8. nipperkins
  9. nippers
  10. Nippes
  11. nippeth

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nippering (page history and authors); nipper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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