Meaning of clipshear | Babel Free

Definitions

Earwig

Scotland

Examples

“I looked over the stair-windows, however, and saw the back green, which smells of clipshears and clockers, as of yore.”

“I also learned from my father how to drown baby mice in a rain barrel, crush a clipshear between my thumbnails, and assist in the skinning of a rabbit.”

“Those tapestries were like a zoological garden, seething with slaters and clipshears.”

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