WordNet
n. a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever [syn: pincer, pair of pincers, tweezer]
Usage examples of "pair of tweezers".
I filled the bowl with my own mixture, and then picked a burning charcoal with a pair of tweezers I had made from a wooden clothespin and had been saving for this occasion.
Augustus Germaine held the scale up with a pair of tweezers and rotated it against the light, shaking his head.
Taking a pair of tweezers from his kit he reached into the wound, drawing the artery which was spurting blood.
A pair of tweezers were necessary to remove the mandibles and attached heads of those ants that had refused to release their grip, even after having been drowned and dismembered.
The stranger was sitting down with his back against a tree, the poncho draped over one shoulder, letting Rook probe around inside his wound with a pair of tweezers from one of the Cyc's first-aid kits.
Nabber had produced a pair of tweezers from his pack and was pulling burnt stalks from his britches with all the finesse of a court dandy.
The paper was not so sopped and sodden as he had feared, and with a pair of tweezers he was soon able to unfold a strip about two inches wide and eight inches long.
The Rajpootanee girls pluck out the hairs as they appear with a pair of tweezers, as the ancient Greek women did, and this I think a very preferable process to the shaving.