Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Clip \Clip\, n.
   1. An embrace. --Sir P. Sidney.

   2. A cutting; a shearing.

   3. The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop
      of wool.

   4. A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

   5. An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron
      strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree. --Knight.

   6. (Far.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a
      horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of
      the hoof; -- called also {toe clip} and {beak}. --Youatt.

   7. A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
      [Colloq. U. S.]