Nipper

·noun One who, or that which, nips.

II. Nipper ·noun The Cunner.

III. Nipper ·noun A Satirist.

IV. Nipper ·noun A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

V. Nipper ·noun A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.

VI. Nipper ·noun A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.

nipper
n. local name in Sydney for Alphaeussocialis, Heller, a species of prawn. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
nipper
The armourer's pincers or tongs. Also, a hammock with so little bedding as to be unfit for stowing i...

The Sailor's Word-Book
boung nipper
A cut purse. CANT. -- Formerly purses were worn at the girdle, from whence they were cut. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
nipper-men
Foretop-men employed to bind the nippers about the cables and messenger, and to whom the boys return...

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