Nipping
['nɪpɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nip
(a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.
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Examples
- Formerly, the opening machines were simply cylinders armed with spikes, to which the cotton was led through nipping rollers, and then delivered in a loose, fluffy condition. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Our native oak, as his partisans called him, was visited truly by a nipping winter. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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