What whisky bears the name of a famous1870 s clipper ship? 哪一种威士忌的名称是1870年的一艘快船的名字?
The length of the clipper from stem to stern is thirty-six feet. 这艘快船从船头到船尾全长36英尺。
clipper
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(electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform)
<noun.artifact> a limiter introduces amplitude distortion
a fast sailing ship used in former times
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shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural)
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scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)
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Clipper \Clip"per\ (kl[i^]p"p[~e]r), n. 1. One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coins.
The value is pared off from it into the clipper's pocket. --Locke.
2. A machine for clipping hair, esp. the hair of horses.
3. (Naut.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built with a fast hull and tall sails, rigged for fast sailing, and used in trade where the cargo capacity was less important than the speed; -- called also {clipper ship}. -- {Clip"per-built`}, a.
Note: The name was first borne by ``Baltimore clippers'' famous as privateers in the early wars of the United States.
4. (Electronics) a circuit that limits the amplitude of a waveform.
Syn: limiter. [WordNet 1.5]
{Yankee Clipper}, (a) a clipper ship built in the United States. See clipper[3]. (b) Joe DiMaggio; -- a nickname for the player who was a prominent member of the New York Yankees baseball team in the 1940's. [PJC]
Ditto for the antique horse hair clipper, the 1928 Buick radiator cap, the table lamp mounted on a Uruguayan firefighter's helmet, and the tractor tire shoes with the words "love" and "peace" inscribed on the soles.
The crew docked the 10-ton vessel at Blossom Rock, about two miles from the Golden Gate, because they said the submerged point is where clipper ships used to drop anchor.
In 1989, Pettengill and a Canadian sailor successfully rounded Cape Horn from east to west to break by 12 days a 135-year-old record set by the clipper Flying Cloud.
A shot was fired from a replica of a 19th century cannon on the starboard side, and the clipper schooner pulled away.
In the tradition of the tall-masted clipper ships that once raced across the oceans, two sailors are taking aim at a 136-year-old record this fall in a San Francisco-to-Boston sweep around treacherous Cape Horn.
The clipper Flying Cloud, a merchantman that also ferried Gold Rush adventurers to San Francisco, could lay on 35 sails on its tall masts.
Early in the last century, US trading relations with India amounted to the transport of ice by clipper ships from Boston to Calcutta.