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Webster 1913 Edition
Nippers
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Nippers
NIP'PERS
,Noun.