The small shoots ... must be nipt off. — John Mortimer The Whole Art of Husbandry .
And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip. — Edmund Spenser.
The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.
May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. — Alfred Tennyson.
A novice nip, newly arrived in London, went one afternoon to the Red Bull in Bishopsgate, an inn converted to a playhouse.