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Definition of Clipt
1. clip [v] - See also: clip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clipt
Literary usage of Clipt
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"The lords have added a clause to the coinage bill, that commissioners he appointed
to receive all clipt money, and to weigh it, and to give a bill for what ..."
2. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1820)
"And that two prices had actually taken place, one in the good and lawful money,
and the other in the clipt money, which from the scarcity of silver change, ..."
3. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"Anemone, or Flos Adonis, that Eus- ton Duke of Orleans was so fond of? 37.
Windows opening like doors into the garden. 49. Horn-beam to be clipt for walks, ..."
4. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English by William Carew Hazlitt (1882)
"A Letter of Advice to a Friend About the Currency of clipt Money. . . . London,
Printed for A. and J. Churchill. .. 1696. 8°, A—D in fours. ..."
5. Smiling 'round the World by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... Hospitality—Their Pleasures and Amusements—Miracle Play—Fireworks and Home to
Bed—Emilio Aguinaldo —His Wings clipt and He Will Soar no More. ..."
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