A cutter; a small schooner with raking masts, built and rigged with a view to fast sailing. Larger vessels are sometimes built after their model, when they are called clipper-built.
·noun A machine for clipping hair, ·esp. the hair of horses. II. Clipper ·noun A vessel with a shar...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A fast sailer, formerly chiefly applied to the sharp-built raking schooners of America, and latterly...
The Sailor's Word-Book