Clip’ping, n.
n. 1. The act of encircling with the arms, or of embracing. Tuberville.
Sense 2. The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing.
Clipping by Englishmen is robbing the honest man who receives clipped money. Locke.
Sense 3. That which is clipped off; a piece separated by clipping. “The clippings of our beards and parings of our nails.” Locke.