[f. CLIP v. + -ING1.] Clasping, embracing.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 3. Fleschliche þohtes … eggeð þe to brudlac & to weres cluppinge.
1382. Wyclif, Eccl. iii. 5. Time of clipping and time to ben maad aferr fro clippingus.
1434. E. E. Wills (1882), 102. A ryng … with clippyng of ij handes, siluir & gilt.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Embrassement, a colling, a clipping.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), III. 104. Kissing and clipping.
1862. Sir H. Taylor, St. Clement’s Eve, V. ii. Is this a time for clippings and embracings?
