Nipping

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nip

(a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

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• Formerly, the opening machines were simply cylinders armed with spikes, to which the cotton was led through nipping rollers, and then delivered in a loose, fluffy condition. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Our native oak, as his partisans called him, was visited truly by a nipping winter. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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