gipper

noun

gipper

noun

US /ˈɡɪpɚ/

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

1

One who gips (cleans fish in preparation for curing).

Obsolete except dialectal

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.1641, Simon Smith, The Herring-Busse Trade […], page 9:

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