NIPPERS

Definitions: NIPPERS

NIPPERS

Noun plural

1. A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.

2. A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.

3. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "NIPPERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Retention

Clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice.

Crosswords: NIPPERS

The Diamond Nippers (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Oyster tongs and nippers.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "NIPPERS": cutting nippers. Additional references.

Ending with "NIPPERS": Pa-of-two-planned-nippers.

Albanian

pranga (cuff, gyve, handcuff, iron, irons, manacle, shackle, shackles), pincë (barnacle, crimper, forceps, pincers, pincette, pinchers, pliers, tongs, wire cutter, wire cutters), pensne (pince nez), darë (claw, pincers, pinchers). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كماشات (pincers, pinchers, pliers, tongs), ‏كلابات (barnacles). (various references)

Bulgarian 

резци, щипци (extractor, forceps, pincers, pinchers, pliers, tongs), малък форцепс, малки клещи, белезници (bracelet, darbies, handcuffs, manacle, mittens, shackles), пинцети (tweezers). (various references)

Chinese 

少年 (juvenile, Nipper, teenage, teenager). (various references)

Czech

skřipec (clip). (various references)

Danish

traadtang (cutting, pliers, wire cutters, wire nippers), knibtang (cutting, pincers, pliers, tongs, wire cutters, wire nippers). (various references)

Dutch

vangconstructie voor het ophalen van het vrijvallende heiblok. (various references)

Finnish

pihdit (dogs, forceps, griping device, gripper, pinchers, pliers, tongs, tweezers). (various references)

French

tenailles, pinces. (various references)

German

Zange (anchor log, bulk handler, claw, cribbing, dogs, double lock, forceps, grab, gripper, gripper-loader, guide, lifting grab, log crib construction, nipper, pincer, pincers, pliers, soldier, stud, tones, tongs, tweezers), Fangbuegel. (various references)

Greek 

λαβίσ (pincers, pinchers), τσιμπίδες (pinchers), τσιμπίδα (assayer's tongs, corn tongs, cramp, davit, forceps, nipper, pincers, pliers, poker, tongs, torch(for inert-gas arc welding using a non-consumable electrode), tweezers). (various references)

Hebrew 

משכים (early rising), מצבטים (forceps, pincers, pliers), צבת (bundle of ears of corn, pincers, pliers, sheaf, tongs, tweezers). (various references)

Hungarian

cvikker (nipper, nose glasses, pince nez, pince-nez, quizzing-glass), orrcsíptető (quizzing-glass), csipesz (clip, forceps, grapple, nipper, pair of forceps, pincers, pinchers, pliers, protractor, tweezers), csípőfogó (pinchers, pliers). (various references)

Italian

tronchesino, tenaglia (pincers, pliers, tongs), pinza (claw, clip, cramp, davit, dogs, forceps, fork, grab, griping device, gripper, lifting grab, nipper, pincer, pliers, tongs, tweezers). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ニッケル鋼 (knit, knitted fabric, knitted garments, knitwear, nickel steel), 毛抜き (tweezers). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ニッパー , けぬき (tweezers). (various references)

Pig Latin

ippersnay

Portuguese

tenazes (nipper, pair of pincers, pincers, pinchers, pliers), pessoa que belisca. (various references)

Russian 

кусачки (wire cutter, wire cutters, wire-cutter, wirecutters), кандалы (fetter, iron, manacle, shackle, shackles), клещи (bender, claw, jaw, pincer, pincers, pliers, tongs, vice, vise), острогубцы, пенсне (eyeglasses, pince nez, pince-nez). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

klešta (nipper, pincers, pliers, tongs), štipaljka (clothes peg, clothespin, nipper). (various references)

Spanish

tenazas del escape, pinzas (claw, dogs, forceps, glazier's pliers, pincers, pliers, scoop, shanks, tools, tweezer, tweezers), alicates (dogs, forceps, pliers, tweezers). (various references)

Swedish

avbitartång (nipper, scissor tong). (various references)

Thai

คีมสำหรับตั�". (various references)

Turkish

pense, kerpeten (a pair of pincers, cutting nippers, nail puller, pincers, pliers), kelepçe (bracelets, clamp, cleat, cuff, darbies, handcuff, handcuffs, manacle, manacles, shackle, wristlet), cımbız (a pair of tweezers, tweezers). (various references)

Ukranian 

щипці (barnacle, crimper, crowbill, nipper, pincers, pliers, tongs), кусачки (nipper, wire cutter), кайдани (chain, gyve, irons, links, nipper, thorns), клішні рака (nipper), клішні краба, гострозубці (clipper), обценьки (nipper, pincers, pliers), наручники (bracelets, cuffs, manacle, nipper, shackles), пенсне (barnacle, nipper, pince nez). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "NIPPERS": gallinippers, snippers. (additional references)

Words containing "NIPPERS": snippersnapper, snippersnappers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"NIPPERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gippers, napiers, Napirasu, napper, neper, nepers, niper, nippels, Nippur, Nuper. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: snipper.

-1 letter: nipper, pepsin, pipers, repins, ripens, sipper, sniper.

-2 letters: peins, penis, peris, perps, piers, pines, piper, pipes, pirns, preps, pries, prise, reins, repin, repps, resin, rinse, ripen, ripes, risen, serin, siren, snipe, speir, spier, spine, spire.

-3 letters: erns, ires, nips, pein, pens, peps, peri, perp, pier, pies, pine, pins, pipe, pips, pirn, prep, rein, reis, repp, reps, rins, ripe, rips, rise, sine, sipe, sire, snip, spin.

-4 letters: ens, ern, ers, ins, ire, nip, pen, pep, per, pes, pie, pin, pip, pis, psi, rei, rep, res, rin, rip, sei, sen, ser, sin, sip, sir, sri.

-5 letters: en, er, es, in, is, ne, pe, pi, re, si.

+1 letter: propines, snappier, snippers, snippier.

+2 letters: hornpipes, peperonis, pinedrops, pinstripe, piperines, preprints, sandpiper.

+3 letters: appertains, drainpipes, kidnappers, oppressing, oppression, paperiness, pepperonis, perspiring, pimpernels, pinspotter, pinstriped, pinstripes, piperonals, porcupines, prepasting, preppiness, preshaping, princeship, principles, propensity, properdins, prospering, reappoints, reopposing, reshipping, sandpipers, sapphirine, scuppering, skippering, snippetier, stoppering.

+4 letters: apprentices, epinephrins, oppressions, oversupping, papaverines, partnership, pepperiness, peppermints, perceptions, percipients, periphytons, pinspotters, piperazines, piperidines, planisphere, precipitins, preemptions, preportions, preposition, prestamping, presumption, presynaptic, princeships, prophesying, propionates, prospecting, resupplying, scrappiness, sniperscope, superhyping, superposing, suppressing, suppression, transhipped, uppercasing.

+5 letters: apomorphines, appraisement, apprehension, apprehensive, disappearing, epinephrines, gallinippers, handicappers, hypercapnias, improperness, lipoproteins, misapprehend, naprapathies, newspapering, nonpurposive, overslipping, overstepping, paperinesses, papermakings, partnerships, percipiences, perspiration, pilocarpines, planispheres, planispheric, precipitants, predisposing, prelapsarian, preparations, prepositions, prepotencies, preppinesses, prescription, presumptions, presupposing, propensities, reapportions, reappraising, sandpapering, siphonophore, slipperiness, sniperscopes, suppressions, transshipped, unstoppering.

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