nipper

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A tool, such as pliers or pincers, used for squeezing or nipping. Often used in the plural.
2. n. A pincerlike part, such as the large claw of a crustacean.
3. n. Chiefly British A small boy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who nips.
2. n. A satirist.
3. n. A thief; a pickpocket; a cutpurse.
4. n. A boy who waits on a gang of navvies, to fetch them water, carry their tools to the smithy, etc.; also, a boy who goes about with and assists a costermonger.
5. n. One of various tools or implements like pincers or tongs: generally in the plural. , , , , A form of grasping-tool or pincers with cutting jaws, used by carpenters, metal workers, etc
6. n. An incisor tooth; especially, one of the incisors or fore teeth of a horse.
7. n. One of the great claws or chelæ of a crustacean, as a crab or lobster.
8. n. Nautical, a short piece of rope or selvage used to bind the cable to the messenger in heaving up an anchor. Iron clamps have been used for the same purpose with chain cables. Nippers are now no longer used, the chain cable being applied directly to the capstan.
9. n. A hammock with so little bedding as to be unfit for stowing in the nettings.
10. n. The cunner, Ctenolabrus adspersus: so called from the way in which it nips or nibbles the hook. Also nibbler. See cut under cunner.
11. n. The young bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix; so called by fishermen because it bites or nips pieces out of the menhaden, in the schools of which it is often found.
12. Nautical, to fasten two parts of (a rope) together, in order to prevent it from rendering; also, to fasten nippers to.
13. n. A dram; nip.
14. n. A local name in Australia of species of Alphæus, a genus of prawns.

Wiktionary

1. n. One who, or that which, nips.
2. n. usually plural Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping.
3. n. slang A child.
4. n. Australia A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs.
5. n. Canada, slang, Newfoundland A mosquito.
6. n. One of four foreteeth in a horse.
7. n. obsolete A satirist.
8. n. obsolete, slang A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
9. n. A fish, the cunner.
10. n. A European crab (Polybius henslowii).
11. n. The claws of a crab or lobster.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, nips.
2. n. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
3. n. obsolete A satirist.
4. n. Old Cant A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
5. n. The cunner.
6. n. A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a young person of either sex
2. n. a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods