clip
/klɪp/ noun B1- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. · Use this clip to attach the check to your tax form.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace. · She reads at a pretty good clip.· He was walking at a fair clip and I was out of breath trying to keep up.
- A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- A removable magazine of a firearm.
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
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Marilla made no reply, but she hit the unlucky sorrel such a vicious clip with the whip that the fat mare, unused to such treatment, whizzed indignantly down the lane at an alarming pace.
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