clipsing

English

Noun

clipsing (uncountable)

1. (British dialect) The act of clasping.
   • 1893, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 5th edition, New York: Harpur and Brothers, page 13:

     `'Tis melancholy work facing and footing it to one of your own sort, and no clipsing and colling at all.'

Anagrams

• splicing