ETYMOLOGY
formed by compounding clip (that which is clipped or cut);
apparently from the form of its feelers, as having some resemblance to a pair of shears,
or scissors
EXAMPLE
“…turned out their russet recesses to the birsling sun, and the foggie-toddlers hirpled about their business in the warm sod, among golacks and clip-shears, while the grasshoppers chirped in merry concert…”
From: Proceedings of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Edited by Agnes McLean, Vol. XXX. 1898
V. Dr. James Colville on the Scottish Vernacular.
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