A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.

A vessel with a sharp bow, built with a fast hull and tall sails, rigged for fast sailing, and used in trade where the cargo capacity was less important than the speed; -- called also clipper ship.

fast commercial sailing ship

Sailing ship built for great speed. Clippers differ from other square riggers by having long and slender hulls at least six times as long as they are wide.

A title of honour given to ships of more than usual speed and beauty.

klipp-err A fast sailing ship, esp. one with raking bows and masts.

a fast sailing ship used in former times

a fast-sailing vessel

fast sailing vessel of the 1850's and 1860's.

a name applied to fast ship with sails

A clipper was a very fast multiple-masted sailing ship of the 19th century. Generally narrow for their length, limited in their bulk freight carrying capacities, and small by later 19th century standards, the clippers had a large relative sail area. "Clipper ships" were mostly products of British and American shipyards, though France, the Netherlands (the Dutch-built "Telanak", built in 1859 for the tea and passenger trade to Java) and other nations also produced a number of them.