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the large pincer-like claw of a lobster, crab, or similar crustacean

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No references found	events, was my impression of Nipper Nasmyth, after my first term, which was also his last I had never spoken to him, but I had heard him speak with extraordinary force and fervor in the school debates. A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context A whaleman's nipper is a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering part of Leviathan's tail: it averages an inch in thickness, and for the rest, is about the size of the iron part of a hoe. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context The contents of the boy's pockets naturally made a larger heap, and included marbles, a ball of string, an electric torch, a magnet, a small catapult, and, of course, a large pocketknife, almost to be described as a small tool box, a complex apparatus on which he seemed disposed to linger, pointing out that it included a pair of nippers, a tool for punching holes in wood, and, above all, an instrument for taking stones out of a horse's hoof. The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context	Niobid Painter niobite Niobium Niobium Alloys niobium carbide Niobium Ores Niobrara Niobrara County Niobrara National Scenic River Niobrara River Niobrara State Park Nioradze, Georgii Nioradze, Georgii Kaplanovich Niort NIOS NIOSH nip NIPC Nipher shield Nipigon Nipigon, Lake Nipissing Nipissing, Lake Nipkow disk Nipkow, Paul nipper Nipper, Susan nippers nipping Nipple nipple chaser Nippon Nippotaeniidea Nippur Nippy Lug Day Niquee and Anasterax Niqula Shawi NIR Nirala, Surya Kant Tripathi Nirenberg Nirenberg, Marshall W. Nirenberg, Marshall Warren Nirjala Ekadashi Nirod, Fedor Nirod, Fedor Fedorovich Nirvana Nis Nisa Nisbet, Robert A. Nisei Week Nishapur	NIPLEC NIPLECC NIPLI NIPM NIPMIS NIPMN NIPMP Nipmuc Indian Association of Connecticut NIPN NIPNE NIPNLG Nipo NIPOC NIPORT NIPOS NIPP NIPP1 NIPPA NIPPA NIPPA NIPPA NIPPC nipped nipped nipped nipped nipped in the bud nipped in the bud nipped in the bud Nipped-B-Like nipper Nipper, Susan Nipperkin Nippers Nippers Nippers Nippes Nippes Nippes nippier Nippies nippiest nippily nippiness nipping nipping nipping nipping nipping in the bud nipping in the bud nipping in the bud nippingly nippingly Nippitate Nippitato nipple nipple nipple nipple Nipple (plumbing) nipple adenoma

events, was my impression of Nipper Nasmyth, after my first term, which was also his last I had never spoken to him, but I had heard him speak with extraordinary force and fervor in the school debates.

A Thief in the Night by Hornung, E. W. View in context

A whaleman's nipper is a short firm strip of tendinous stuff cut from the tapering part of Leviathan's tail: it averages an inch in thickness, and for the rest, is about the size of the iron part of a hoe.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

The contents of the boy's pockets naturally made a larger heap, and included marbles, a ball of string, an electric torch, a magnet, a small catapult, and, of course, a large pocketknife, almost to be described as a small tool box, a complex apparatus on which he seemed disposed to linger, pointing out that it included a pair of nippers, a tool for punching holes in wood, and, above all, an instrument for taking stones out of a horse's hoof.

The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context

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