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Grasping apparatus
Answer for the clue "Grasping apparatus ", 7 letters:
pincers
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Word definitions for pincers in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "tool for grasping or nipping," from Old French pinceure "pincers, tongs," from pincier "to pinch" (see pinch ). Applied to animal parts from 1650s. Related: Pincer .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pincers \Pin"cers\, n. pl. [Cf. F. pince pinchers, fr. pincer to pinch. See Pinch , Pinchers .] See Pinchers .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws. 2 The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters. 3 (plural of pincer English)Category:English plurals
Usage examples of pincers.
Finding that I could lift it at my will, I replaced the pincers, and waited for the night with amorous impatience.
On another occasion Cheb had personally decapitated a hundred prisoners with his pincers.
The habitual spectators at the School of Medicine, the College of France, and the Faculty of Sciences, know how experiments are made on the living flesh, how muscles are divided and cut, the nerves wrenched or dilacerated, the bones broken or methodically opened with gouge, mallet, saw, and pincers.
Frederickson demonstrated his words with graphic movements of the rusted pincers.
The spikes were sawn through and filed flat so that no pincers could gain sufficient purchase to draw them free.
There was a large head, with four antennae and no visable mouth, two arms ending in clusters of four small pincers.
If they can get this far, maybe we can trap the Staters in a pincers movement.
Smash emitted a battle bellow that tore their whiskers back and clogged their pincers with debris, then began stomping and pounding.
Cutlasses were useless against dragon-scale, but the pincers of the Blue Horrors, the Termagant daggers, the axes, swords, fangs and claws of the Fiends, did bloody work against the Heavy Troopers.
Ryan grabbed him, fingers biting like steel pincers, making the whitecoat wince and squeak in pain.
The ants were swarming over the others, the dead and dying warriors, his fellows, his humans, being peeled open and apart by too many claws and pincers and mandibles snapping, plassteel shredding and no one getting a chance to fire enough to stop the peeling, shredding, swarming mandibles with globular eyes.