catamaran vs clipper

catamaran

noun
  • A twin-hulled ship or boat. 

clipper

noun
  • Any of several forms of very fast sailing ships having a long, low hull and a sharply raked stem. 

  • An Alberta clipper. 

  • Anything that clips. 

  • A tool used for clipping something, such as hair, coins, or fingernails. 

  • A person who mutilates coins by fraudulently paring the edges. 

  • The Asian butterfly Parthenos sylvia, family Nymphalidae. 

  • A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value. 

  • A confidence trickster; a conman. 

verb
  • To cut or style (the hair) using clippers. 

How often have the words catamaran and clipper occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )