It does not follow, therefore, that this offence can be caused by the innocent gardener or hedgeclipperbusily trying to dispose of clippings.
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The needle, of which we have only one, has been cut in half with nail clippers to remove a blockage.
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To attack them with noisy electrical clippers is a recipe for a very short life.
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Then duties are to be imposed on wood split pulleys and part thereof, on brooms and brushes, and also on hair clippers.
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Is any increase intended of the purchase price of these scissors and clippers?
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They would squeal if you held them tightly, but the actual snip, which was carried out with sharp scissors or clippers, did not appear to hurt them in the least.
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This long hull variant involved lengthening the bow above the waterline into aclipperform.
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The keen rivalry between clippers led to races over thousands of miles of seas; and upon the result thousands of dollars were often wagered.
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Today, the capes feature prominently in ocean yacht racing, with many races and individual sailors following theclipperroute.
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Given their speed and maneuverability, clippers frequently mounted cannon or carronades and were used for piracy, privateering, smuggling, or interdiction service.
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She has a rounded chine with a sharp, convexclipperbow on a sloop hull.
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She has a traditionalclipperbow-shaped cutwater in a sharp, but convex bow, and a square transom.
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As built, they were wet in a head sea, though this was significantly improved by the installation of aclipperbow in 19401941.
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Theclipperwas a load/store architecture, where arithmetic operations could only specify register or immediate operands.
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Fingernails and toenails must be filed with an emery board; cutting them with aclipperis taboo.
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