Crossword clues for pincer
pincer
- Buy-one-get-one-free item?
- A hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever
- Torture, in a way
- Sort of movement a crab displays
- Nipper moved prince
- Prince desperate for a nipper
- Prince demolished part of a king crab
- It nips William, say, right on the rear
- Lobster claw
- Lobster's claw
- Military maneuver
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
a. (Of an attack) See pincer attack n. any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers
WordNet
n. a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever [syn: pair of pincers, tweezer, pair of tweezers]
a structure like a pincer on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods [syn: claw, chela, nipper]
Wikipedia
Pincer may refer to:
- Pincers (tool)
- Pincer (biology), part of an animal
- Pincer ligand, a terdentate, often planar molecule that tightly binds a variety of metal ions
- The Pincer move in the game of go
A pincer is the part of an arthropod that enables it to carry loads, to defend against other creatures, or to attack prey. In insects, the pincers are usually part of the creature's mandible, and often venom or acid can be injected through the pincer into an enemy during a pincer strike.
Some arthropods such as crabs, lobsters, and scorpions possess pincers in the form of chelae at the ends of their front limbs, to assist in feeding, defence or even courtship.
Usage examples of "pincer".
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.
The section of the Hori corps that had pursued the enemy down the mountain first was now caught in a pincer movement just as Kyutaro had feared, and an appalling battle ensued.
Roger circles so as to make with Pointsman a pincer upon the animal, who now stands with paws planted and teeth showing near one of the pieces of rear wall still standing.
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.
Leaving Shammuron and Mentes to fight alone, he scuttled over the broken earth to the wizard and snatched him up in one terrible pincer.
The expeditionary force will form three separate columns of attack, advance under cover of darkness and total silence along diverging routes of march, turn at predesignated points and converge upon Able Hill in a three-pronged pincer movement.
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.