snipping
    n 1: a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been
         snipped off) [syn: snip, snippet, snipping]

Snip \Snip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snipped; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Snipping.] [D. snippen; akin to G. schnippen.]
   To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with
   shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to
   break off; to snatch away.
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         Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my
         parents from those vicious excrescences to which that
         age was subject.                         --Fuller.
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         The captain seldom ordered anything out of the ship's
         stores . . . but I snipped some of it for my own share.
                                                  --De Foe.
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