Pincers

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • noun-plural. A grasping tool having a pair of jaws and handles pivoted together to work in opposition.
  • noun-plural. The articulated prehensile claws of certain arthropods, such as the lobster.
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  • n. A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
  • n. The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.
  • n. Plural form of pincer.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. See pinchers.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tool having two hinged jaws which can be firmly closed and held together. See cut under nippers.
  • n. In zoology, nippers or prehensile claws of certain animals, as insects and crustaceans.
  • n. Specifically
  • n. A chela, or chelate limb. See chela, and cuts under lobster and Pedipalpi.
  • n. Anal forceps.
  • n. Sometimes called pinchers.
  • A species of herring, Sardina escamuda.
    • Word Usage
    "Under the pincers was a little half coagulated seminal fluid at the bottom of the vulva."
    Cross Reference
    saddlers' pincers    tongs   
    Variant
    pinchers   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pinchers    tweezers    claw    forceps    pincette   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    mincers   
     
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