snipping

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of snip

noun

1. The act by which something is snipped or cut.
   There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds. 1993, Raymond Leppard, Thomas P. Lewis, Raymond Leppard on Music, page 78
2. A piece cut off; a clipping.
   One of them bit off his toe, others took snippings from his hair or tore off his nails and would have cut pieces from his flesh had they not been prevented. 1975, Gerald Brenan, St John of the Cross: His Life and Poetry, page 82