Clipper

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Swedish: klipper

One who or that which clips along. Probably from the German klipper, for a fast horse, known from Livland in 1341. Klippare is a smallish but heavily built, lively and fast horse. Known in Swedish from 1525.

Quotations:

1830 Marryat King's Own, p xiii:: She must be a clipper as she catches us!
1833 Gosselman SNAmer, 2:34:: En lång och svå skonert, af det slaget, som i Vestindien kallas "Klipper".

Updated 1996-08-31 by Lars Bruzelius

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