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Definition of Snipping
1. Noun. A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off).
Definition of Snipping
1. Verb. (present participle of snip) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Snipping
1. snip [v] - See also: snip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snipping
Literary usage of Snipping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Second Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1913 by George Moses Price, James P. Whiskeman, Elizabeth C. Watson, Zenas L. Potter, Charles Baskerville, Charles F. McKenna, Charles T. Graham Rogers, John H. Vogt, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark, George A. Hall (1913)
"M., snipping, and ate a little bread and butter for lunch; total 7 1/2 hours.
... M. August 21st she worked from 4:30 AM until 7 AM, snipping; 7:30 AM until ..."
2. Vegetables by S. Beaty-Pownall (1902)
"... or snipping off Fie. 1. of the tips and the consequent pulling away of the
string that goes round them. This is of course to town dwellers a counsel of ..."
3. Second Report of the Factory Investigating Commission, 1913 by George Moses Price, James P. Whiskeman, Elizabeth C. Watson, Zenas L. Potter, Charles Baskerville, Charles F. McKenna, Charles T. Graham Rogers, John H. Vogt, George A. Hall, Pauline Dorothea Goldmark (1913)
"10.30 AM to 3.00 PM (snipping) (ate only a little bread and " 18... (Sunday).
... 11.30AM to 6.00PM 6.30 PM to 11.00 PM (ate while snipping) 11 ( Sunday). ..."
4. A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs: Containing by James Elmes (1831)
"They were completed at the expense of the East India Dock Company, and were opened
for the reception of snipping on the 3d September, 1802. ..."
5. The London Medical Gazette (1840)
"First, the snipping of the conjunctiva. The usual formidable notes of prepara-'
lion are avoided. The probe which I employ consists of two stems placed ..."
6. The Art of Taxidermy by John Rowley (1898)
"snipping THE EDGE OF a LEAF. on the edges of the wax leaves. The regular notch (Fig.
50) is made by making short straight cuts in the edge of the leaf, ..."
7. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1844)
"When an abscess forms in a pile, that is best relieved, not by laying open the
abscess, but by snipping off the pile. " In dyspeptic persons the tongue is ..."
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