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pincers
[ pin-serz ]
noun
- 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.
pincers
/ ˈpɪnsəz /
plural noun
- Also calledpair 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
- the pair or pairs of jointed grasping appendages in lobsters and certain other arthropods
pincers
/ pĭn′sərz /
- A jointed grasping claw of certain animals, such as lobsters and scorpions.
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Origin of pincers1
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Example Sentences
And the nightmare clutch laid hold upon his heart with giant pincers.
Some of the figures are being roasted, twitched with red-hot pincers, partly baked, or forced to swallow fire.
He was conscious of a brief pain in one finger, and the next instant someone tore the finger out of his hand with red hot pincers.
He had put on a stone-cloth shirt, and seizing iron pincers, he lifted off an iron cover.
The pincers gripe, the pliers handle; the one is like the closed hand, the other like the fingers.
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