clipper

A fast sailer, formerly chiefly applied to the sharp-built raking schooners of America, and latterly to Australian passenger-ships.

Larger vessels now built after their model are termed clipper-built: sharp and fast; low in the water; rakish.

← cliphook × clive →

Clipper
·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
clipper
A cutter; a small schooner with raking masts, built and rigged with a view to fast sailing. Larger v...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.