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pincers

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noun (usually used with a plural verb)

a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of).

Zoology. a grasping organ or pair of organs resembling this, as the claw of a lobster.

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Also, pinchers.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English pinsers, earlier pynceours, plural of *pinceour < Anglo-French pince(r) to pinch + -our -or²

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phylum of worms comprised of parasitic and free-living nonparasitic species

phylum comprised of mollusks

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pincers (ˈpɪnsəz)

—*pl n*
1.	Also called: pair of pincers a gripping tool consisting of two hinged arms with handles at one end and, at the other, curved bevelled jaws that close on the workpiece: used esp for extracting nails
2.	the pair or pairs of jointed grasping appendages in lobsters and certain other arthropods

[C14: from Old French pinceour, from Old French pincier to pinch]

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Word Origin & History

pincers

1338, from O.Fr. pinecure "pincers," from pincier "to pinch" (see pinch).

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pincers

(pĭn'sərz) Pronunciation Key
A jointed grasping claw of certain animals, such as lobsters and scorpions.