clipsing

English

Noun

clipsing (uncountable)

  1. (British dialect) The act of clasping.
    • 1893, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 5th edition, New York: Harpur and Brothers, page 13:
      `'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clipsing and colling at all.'

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