clipper - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

clipper n.

Forms	clipper n.
Etymology	From clippen v.(2).

(a) A barber; (b) a sheepshearer; (c) one who clips coins; (d) one who shapes or engraves dies used for minting coin; (e) a surname.

a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)66a/b : Tonstrix: a clyppare.
(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)82 : Clyppare: Tonsor, tonsatrix.
?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)26a : A clypper: tonsor, tontrix [read: tonstrix], tontriscula [Monson: tonstricula].

(a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Is.53.7 : As a lomb bifor the clippere [L tondente] itself, he shal become doumb.
c1400(?c1380) Pearl (Nero A.10)802 : As a schep to þe slaȝt þer lad watz he, And, as lombe þat clypper in hande men [read: nem], So closed he hys mouth.
a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)1 Kings 25.11 : Shal I thanne take..flesh of beestis, that I haue slayn to my clippers [L tonsoribus; WB(2): schereris], and ȝife to men whom I knowe not whennus thei ben?
c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 8.32 : As a lombe bifore þo clippar wiþouten voice, so he opunde not hise mowþe.

?a1400(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.2 (Petyt 511)p.238 : Edward..wille wite certeyn who schent his mone; Of clippers [F roygnurs], of roungers, of suilk takes he questis.
(?a1450) Oath Bk.Colchester3 : Also if there be any clippers or wasshers of the Kyngs coyne, and of their abbettours and ressevours withyn the sayd Burgh.
a1450(a1425) Mirk IPP (Cld A.2:Peacock)1663 : Sende forth þese to þe byschop:..Clypper of þe kynges mynt.
c1450 Jacob's W.(Sal 103)19/9 : We denounce acursed alle makerys of fals monye, & clypperys, & wasscherys.
c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)681 : Multyplyers, coyn wasshers, & clyppers.
1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.283 : The kyng then did great right and iustice Vpon clippers and peirers of the coyne.

(1469) Indent.Edw.IV in Archaeol.15167 : The same wardeyn and the countroller, clipper of the irennes, and clerk of the coynes shall have their fees.
(1469) Indent.Edw.IV in Archaeol.15172 : The same clipper of the irennes aforeseid shall not clippe elleswhere but oonly in on hous withyn the Towre.