Clipping Pace (A)
. Very fast. A clipper is a fast-sailing vessel.
“Leaving Bolus Head, we scudded on at a clipping pace, and the skiff yielded so much to the breeze that Bury said we must reef the mainsail.”—W. S. Trench: Realities of Irish Life, chap. x
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.