Use 'clipper' to refer to the hand-held tool, mainly at home or barber shops.

Usage Context

'Clippers' often refers to the tool in plural, even though it's a single item.

Plurality Variation

Remember 'clipper' for ships is historical and mainly used in old tales or history texts.

Historical Ship

Don't confuse clippers with modern sailboats; clippers belong to the past.

Not Modern Boats

Use 'clipper' for tools in gardening or arts, not for electronic or heavy-duty cutting.

Gardening and Crafts

A clipper suggests precision in cutting, especially for delicate items like paper.

Precision

In electronics, a 'clipper' limits voltage, keeping signals within a safe range.

Electronic Limiting

'Clipper' in electronics is technical jargon, not used in everyday talk.

Technical Jargon

 and the plant was still only grown in China. The tea trade was so lucrative that the world's fastest sailboat, the clipper ship, was born out of intense competition between Western trading companies. All were racing to bring their tea back to Europe first to maximize their profits.

The history of tea -...

 is right around freezing for sailors like those that ran aground with the ocean clipper facing the reality of having to jump overboard into the Bering Sea would have been terrifying you know I had to put on this suit with all the time in the world and