'Snip' definitions:

Definition of 'snip'

From: WordNet
noun
A small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) [syn: snip, snippet, snipping]
noun
The act of clipping or snipping [syn: clip, clipping, snip]
verb
Sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers" [syn: nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off]
verb
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" [syn: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back]

Definition of 'Snip'

From: GCIDE
  • Snip \Snip\, n.
  • 1. A single cut, as with shears or scissors; a clip. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A small shred; a bit cut off. --Wiseman. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A share; a snack. [Obs.] --L'Estrange [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A tailor. [Slang] --Nares. C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Snip'

From: GCIDE
  • Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n. Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.] To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. [1913 Webster]
  • Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
  • The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]

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