nipper : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nipper	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for nipper
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nipper n a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" Synonym(s): child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods Synonym(s): claw, chela, nipper, pincer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nipper \Nip"per\, n. 1. One who, or that which, nips. 2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number. 3. A satirist. [Obs.] --Ascham. 4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. [Old Cant] 5. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The cunner. (b) A European crab ({Polybius Henslowii}).