clipsing
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]clipsing (uncountable)
- (British dialect) The act of clasping.
- 1893, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 5th edition, New York: Harpur and Brothers, page 13:
- `'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clipsing and colling at all.'