clipping

It was the same kind of clipping that you do yourself every week, except that only a small piece of only one nail was clipped.

Everyone ascends via the same route, clipping into ropes stitched up the mountainside—six miles of it—all the way to the top.

Meghan: If you run for president, people are going to be clipping your answers all the time.

Gardeners were clipping the trees to a point or into an elliptical shape.