NIPPERS

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

2.
n.

A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.

3.
n.

A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.


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