(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
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
