A blow or stroke with the hand; as, He hit him a clip.--Webster. Provincial in New England and the Northern States.
TO CLIP
To cut, to run. Probably from the motion of a bird's wings, which strike or heat the air as it flies or runs.
Some falcon stoops at what her eye designed,
And, with her eagerness the quarry missed,
Straight flies at check, and clips it down the wind.
Dryden.
I hadn't much time left, .... so I ran all the way, right down as hard as I could clip.
Sam Slick in England, ch. 8.