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clipper

noun as in vessel

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I had an awful episode when I boiled two pounds of fresh broccoli in a plastic bag with the nail clipper for heat.

It turns out that a nail clipper, divided into two halves and hooked up directly into a power socket will boil water.

Los Angeles Clipper Chris Paul has a pair of $325 Barena Venezias.

He helped draft the Computer Security Act of 1987 and organized the campaign against the "Clipper" chip in 1994.

Then you graduated to clipper and finally to researcher—or fact-checker.

The vessel in which he found himself was not by any means what we should style clipper-built—quite the reverse.

The Rossie was a clipper, and he could run away from an enemy too strong to fight, though running away was not much to his taste.

If a clipper for the finger nails becomes dull do not throw it away, but keep it in the tool box in a handy place.

"Looks mighty fine in them clipper-built city clothes, Red does," he reflected.

Such fire-balls, shot into the sun-dried canvas of the clipper, might go far towards leaving her bones ableach on Ulu Salama.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to clipper, such as: boat, sailboat, and ship.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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