/dev/clipboard is not a device as far as a normal Windows program is concerned. There is no true handle associated with it. /dev/clipboard will not work with windows apps.
You can also use putclip and getclip, two cygwin programs from the cygutils package:
ipconfig | putclip getclip > output
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