Crossword clues for pincers
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pincers \Pin"cers\, n. pl. [Cf. F. pince pinchers, fr. pincer to pinch. See Pinch, Pinchers.] See Pinchers.
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.
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
WordNet
Wikipedia
Pincers are a hand tool used in many situations where a mechanical advantage is required to pinch, cut or pull an object. Pincers are first-class levers, but differ from pliers in that the concentration of force is either to a point, or to an edge perpendicular to the length of the tool. This allows pincers to be brought close to a surface, as is often required when working with nails. If the pincers have perpendicular cutting edges, the pincers are often called end-nippers or end-cutters. Carpenter's pincers are particularly suited to these tasks.
Pincers are primarily used for removing objects out of a material that they have been previously applied to. Pincers, often red-hot, have been used as an instrument of torture since ancient Roman times or earlier.
Pliers are a similar tool with a different type of head used for squeezing, rather than cutting and pulling.
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.