To pinch close in domestic management.--Forby's Norfolk Glossary.
Mrs. H---- carded, spun, colored, and wove, for herself and others, nipped and beaked her husband, drank, and smoked.--Margaret, p. 14.
·noun A short turn in a rope. II. Nip ·noun A biting sarcasm; a taunt. III. Nip ·noun A pinch with...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
1) A cheat. Bung nipper; a cutpurse. 2) A half pint, a nip of ale: whence the nipperkin, a small ve...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A short turn in a rope. Also, a fishing term for a bite. In Arctic parlance, a nip is when two floes...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A nick name for the purser of a ship: from those gentlemen being supposed sometimes to nip, or dimin...
To veer a small portion of cable through the hawse-hole, or heave a little in, in order to let anoth...