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  1. nippering: Wordnik
  2. nippering: Wiktionary

(Note: See nipper as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Nipper)

noun:  One who, or that which, nips.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
noun:  (British, informal) A child.
noun:  (Australia) A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
noun:  (historical) A boy working as a navvies' assistant.
noun:  (Canada, slang, Newfoundland) A mosquito.
noun:  (archaic) One of four foreteeth in a horse.
noun:  (obsolete) A satirist.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
noun:  A fish, the cunner.
noun:  (archaic) A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
noun:  The claws of a crab or lobster.
noun:  A young bluefish.
noun:  (dated) A machine used by a ticket inspector to stamp passengers' tickets.
noun:  One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs.
noun:  (historical) One of the gloves or mittens worn by fishermen to protect their hands from cold and abrasion.
verb:  (nautical, transitive) To seize (two ropes) together.
noun:  A surname.
▸ Also see nipper


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