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clippers

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clippers [ˈklɪpəz], clips
pl n
1. (Engineering / Tools) a hand tool with two cutting blades for clipping fingernails, hedges, etc.
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Hairdressing & Grooming) a hairdresser's tool, operated either by hand or electrically, with one fixed and one reciprocating set of teeth for cutting short hair
Translations
clippers [ˈklɪpəz] NPL (for hair) → maquinilla fsing (para el pelo); (for nails) → cortaúñas msing inv; (for hedge) → tijeras fpl de podar

clippers [ˈklɪpərz] npl
(for hair)tondeuse f
(also nail clippers) → coupe-ongles m inv

clippers
pl (also pair of clippers)Schere f; (for hedge also) → Heckenschere f; (for hair) → Haarschneidemaschine f; (for fingernails) → Zwicker m, → Nagelzange f

clippers [ˈklɪpəz] npl (for nails) → tagliaunghie m inv; (for hair) → macchinetta per capelli; (for hedge) → tosasiepi m inv, cesoie fpl

clippers ماكينة حلاقة nůžky -klipper Schere κουρευτική μηχανή cortaúñas leikkuri tondeuse aparat za šišanje forbici はさみ 큰 가위 nagelknipper saks cążki cortador кусачки trädgårdssax เครื่องมือใช้ตัดขนแกะ makas kéo xén 大剪刀


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Alongside them were clippers of all sizes, steamers of all nationalities, and the steamboats, with several decks rising one above the other, which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries.
Especially was this the case in the days when the wooden clippers did finely to land you in Sydney or in Melbourne under the four full months.
I had come out of a crack Australian clipper, where I had been third officer, and he seemed to have a prejudice against crack clippers as aristocratic and high-toned.
 
 
 
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