clipshear

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noun

Earwig

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nounclipshear (plural clipshears)

plural clipshears

  1. ScotlandEarwig

    Those tapestries were like a zoological garden, seething with slaters and clipshears.

    2017, Catriona McPherson, Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble, →ISBN
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    I looked over the stair-windows, however, and saw the back green, which smells of clipshears and clockers, as of yore.

    1888, David Gray, Josephus Nelson Larned, Life, letters, poems, etc, page 7

    I also learned from my father how to drown baby mice in a rain barrel, crush a clipshear between my thumbnails, and assist in the skinning of a rabbit.

    2004, Jennie Erdal, Ghosting: A Memoir, page 20

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APA

clipshear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clipshear

MLA

“clipshear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clipshear. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clipshear,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clipshear.

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