gipper

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Etymology

From gip (“clean for curing”) +‎ -er (agent noun suffix).

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gipper (plural gippers)

  1. (obsolete except dialectal) One who gips (cleans fish in preparation for curing).
    • 1641, Simon Smith, The Herring-Busse Trade ‎, page 9:
      One man takes the Herrings out of the Well with the Ladnet, and fils the Gippers baskets. ¶ 9 Gippers which cut their throats, and takes out the Guts, and fling the ful Herring into one Basket, and the ſhotten Herring into another.

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