nipper

How to use nipper in a sentence

The creature was covered with short hairs, and had a pair of nipper-like jaws, with which he could inflict an ugly wound.

A MORTAL ANTIPATHYOLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.

The disposal of poor Nipper's earthly part was a tedious business, but it was accomplished finally.

Nipper Crewe's wheel, well known to every burglar in the state, with the finest kit of breakin' tools made by man hid away in it!

He is quite rightly prouder of that exploit than of all the Nipper's subsequent learning.

Dyou think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled them ever since I was a nipper?

Jim was gone for a sojer, it appeared, and Nipper was sent over the water.

RAVENSHOEHENRY KINGSLEY

Nipper was certainly the most intelligent of the whole canine race.

In the end Nipper committed suicide, and this was the manner of his going.

He saw Jasper in the very act of fitting a wire-nipper to one of the parallel wires of the aerial of the wireless.

In Messrs. Dobson and Barlow's nipper there is neither cloth nor leather on the cushion plate.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985