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Some electric clippers such as the Wahl clipper, or the Andis clipper had a lever that could be moved back and forth to change the closeness from "000"which left the hair stubble length, or "1" which left the hair about one eighth of an inch. External attachments called "Guards" are attached to the clipper to make it cut from "1" to "4".
A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper, which originated in the late 18th century. Clippers were generally narrow for their length, small by later 19th-century standards, could carry limited bulk freight, and had a large total sail area
Replica of 1847 "Baltimore Clipper" Californian built in 1984. A Baltimore clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. An early form of clipper, the name is most commonly applied to two-masted schooners and brigantines. These vessels may also ...
The A5, the London-Holyhead trunk road, is a major road in England and Wales. It runs for about 243 miles (391 km) from London to the Irish Sea at the ferry port of Holyhead . In many parts the route follows that of the Roman Iter II route which later took the Anglo-Saxon name Watling Street .