Definition of Snippings

1. snipping [n] - See also: snipping

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snippings

snipper-snapper
snipper-snappers
snippers
snippersnapper
snippersnappers
snippet
snippetier
snippetiest
snippets
snippety
snippier
snippiest
snippily
snippiness
snipping
snippings
snippy
snips
snipy
snirt
snirted
snirting
snirtle
snirtled
snirtles
snirtling
snirts
snit
snit-fit
snit fit

Literary usage of Snippings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lessons in Practical Hygiene for Use in Schools by Alice Ravenhill (1907)
"(C), and make three cultures from each specimen— (a) (1) Scatter snippings of horse-hair cut with sterilized scissors over a layer of sterilized gelatine, ..."

2. How to Live on a Small Income by Emma Churchman Hewitt (1909)
"What shall I do with these snippings ? " asks the dressmaker who sees no ... So down they go, snippings, threads, bastings —everything—because the room must ..."

3. A History of Wayne County in the World War and in the Wars of the Past by Edward Harry Hauenstein (1919)
"These pillows were made of unbleached muslin into 13 in. by 15 in. sizes and each one was filled with one and one-half pound of snippings. ..."

4. Our Homeless Poor; and what We Can Do to Help Them by Ellen Barlee (1860)
"Apprentices are not over economical of stuff, and many of these snippings were of considerable size. Mrs was struck with the idea that they might be turned ..."

5. The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edmund Gosse, Thomas James Wise (1918)
"... the pathway of Mars Like the parings of nails Ionian—clippings and snippings of stars— Shavings of suns that revolve and evolve and involve and at times ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... Mrs. Myles' visionary recollections in actual person, walking into the very midst of the snippings and parings which were scattered about on the floor. ..."

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