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Nippers

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Nip´pers
n. pl.1.Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
2.(Mach.) 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.(Naut.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
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The contents of the boy's pockets naturally made a larger heap, and included marbles, a ball of string, an electric torch, a magnet, a small catapult, and, of course, a large pocketknife, almost to be described as a small tool box, a complex apparatus on which he seemed disposed to linger, pointing out that it included a pair of nippers, a tool for punching holes in wood, and, above all, an instrument for taking stones out of a horse's hoof.
The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
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