clipsing

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noun

The act of clasping.

Scrabble 13

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nounclipsing (uncountable)
  1. BritishdialectaluncountableThe act of clasping.

    `'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clipsing and colling at all.'

    1893, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 5th edition, New York: Harpur and Brothers, page 13

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