clippers

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Transporting passengers to the gold fields of California and racing to get the first spring tea from China to New York and London drove the rise of extreme clippers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

He is meticulously cutting a member of staff's hair with a pair of clippers, and says the good time credit scheme has made him feel positive about his time in prison.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2025

In another photo, the fake-bald Stamos is holding hair clippers to Coulier's bald head.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2024

After four or five years, I would have had to go and check the head and take the clippers out.

From BBC • May 27, 2024

Even as they watched, one of the clippers was unfurling its sails, long rippling canvas streams swishing down into place on fast pulley systems.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi