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Nipper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A satirist. [Not used.]

2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four.

Nipper [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, nips.

2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.

3. A satirist.

4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.

5. The cunner.

6. A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

Nipperkin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small cup.

Nippers [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Small pinchers.

Nippers [Noun plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

2. A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.

3. A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.