Synonyms for clipper
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : klip-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈklɪp ər |
Définition of clipper
Origin :- late 14c., "sheepshearer;" early 15c., "a barber;" c.1300 as a surname; agent noun from Middle English clippen "shorten" (see clip (v.1)). The type of fast sailing ship so called from 1823 (in Cooper's "The Pilot"), probably from clip (v.1) in sense of "to move or run rapidly," hence early 19c. sense "person or animal who looks capable of fast running." Perhaps originally simply "fast ship," regardless of type:
- Well, you know, the Go-along-Gee was one o' your flash Irish cruisers -- the first o' your fir-built frigates -- and a clipper she was! Give her a foot o' the sheet, and she'd go like a witch--but somehow o'nother, she'd bag on a bowline to leeward. ["Naval Sketch-Book," by "An officer of rank," London, 1826]
- The early association of the ships was with Baltimore, Maryland. Perhaps influenced by Middle Dutch klepper "swift horse," echoic (Clipper appears as the name of an English race horse in 1831). In late 18c., the word principally meant "one who cuts off the edges of coins" for the precious metal.
- noun vessel
- The Sophia was a clipper; and made the run out in a few days.
- Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- You'll see this boy on the quarter deck of a clipper one of these days.
- Extract from : « The Depot Master » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- If I had an oar or somethin' to steer this clipper with, maybe we could git into shoal water.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Eri » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
- Night was drawing near, and the clipper was slipping fast away from us.
- Extract from : « The Shellback's Progress » by Walter Runciman
- Alfred was all of one rainy Sunday reading that copy of the Clipper.
- Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
- Entering the Clipper office he found Alfred the only person in.
- Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field
- There are clipper sloops, clipper yachts, clipper ships, etcetera.
- Extract from : « Man on the Ocean » by R.M. Ballantyne
- A clipper barque, therefore, is merely a fast-sailing barque.
- Extract from : « Man on the Ocean » by R.M. Ballantyne
- One clipper's as good as another if both are sound in the hull and full-rigged.
- Extract from : « Donald and Dorothy » by Mary Mapes Dodge
- The clipper "Great Republic" is not freighted half of her time.
- Extract from : « Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post » by Thomas Rainey
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