clipper

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One that cuts, shears, or clips.
• noun An instrument or tool for cutting, clipping, or shearing.
• noun Nautical A fast, square-rigged ship developed in the mid-19th century, having a sharp bow, tall masts, and a large sail area.
• noun One that moves very fast.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun One who or that which clips; especially, one who reduces the size, value, or importance of anything by clipping it.
• noun A cutting-tool of the nature of shears; specifically, a tool with rotating or reciprocating knives used for cutting hair, and especially for clipping horses. See clipping-shears.
• noun A sailing vessel built with very sharp lines, more or less raking masts, and great spread of canvas, with a view to speed: a development of a model for the mercantile marine first built at Baltimore, U. S., and called the Baltimore clipper.
• noun A person or an animal that runs swiftly, or looks as if capable of running swiftly; a very smart person; something first-rate.
• noun An Australian bird of the genus Ephthianura: as, the wag-tail clipper, E. albïfrons.
• noun The larva of species of Sialis, a genus of neuropterous insects, used for bait by anglers. Also called, in the United States, crawler, dobson, and hellgrammite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins.
• noun A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
• noun (Naut.) 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.
• noun (Electronics) a circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform.
• noun Joe DiMaggio; -- a nickname for the player who was a prominent member of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1940's.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Anything that clips.
• noun A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails.
• noun Something that moves swiftly; especially:
• noun electronics A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
• noun scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)
• noun shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural)
• noun a fast sailing ship used in former times