Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Snipped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Snipping}.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]
   To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with
   shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to
   break off; to snatch away.

         Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my
         parents from those vicious excrescences to which that
         age was subject.                         --Fuller.

         The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's
         stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
                                                  --De Foe.

Source : WordNet®

snip
     n 1: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been
          snipped off) [syn: {snippet}, {snipping}]
     2: the act of clipping or snipping [syn: {clip}, {clipping}]
     [also: {snipping}, {snipped}]

snipping
     n : a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been
         snipped off) [syn: {snip}, {snippet}]

snip
     v 1: sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the
          flowers" [syn: {nip}, {nip off}, {clip}, {snip off}]
     2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
        plants in the garden" [syn: {clip}, {crop}, {trim}, {lop},
         {dress}, {prune}, {cut back}]
     [also: {snipping}, {snipped}]

snipping
     See {snip}