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Definitions for Pincers
[1] a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of ).
[2] Zoology . a grasping organ or pair of organs resembling this, as the claw of a lobster.
[3] 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
[4] the pair or pairs of jointed grasping appendages in lobsters and certain other arthropods
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Words nearby Pincers
pinbone, pince-nez, pincement, pincer movement, pincer nail, pincers, pincers movement, pinch, pinch bar, pinch effect, pinch graft
Origin of Pincers
1300–50; Middle English pinsers, earlier pynceours, plural of *pinceour < Anglo-French pince(r ) to pinch + -our -or2
Word origin for Pincers
C14: from Old French pinceour, from Old French pincier to pinch