Plyers are a smaller kind of pincers, and are used for small work in the same way. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Sports: Containing Out-door Sports, Amusements and Recreations, Including Gymnastics, Gardening & Carpentering] Reference
Should be 'pincers' Grilled Lobster: 190G Energy Value: 160 SR Mackerel: 85G Found in the Ocean and Watery Cave in Spring and Autumn Seasons from 5.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. From Wordnik.com. [IGN Complete] Reference
Forcipiform: having the form of forceps or pincers. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Others, they plucked off all the hair of their heads and beards with pincers. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
But the Flea flew free from the pincers 'grip, and uttered a single phrase. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892] Reference
Just look at his tail and see how it is provided with a pair of pincers at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
Holding the pincers in his rubber-gloved hands, the old man quickly snipped the wire. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference
A pair of pincers is held at a little distance from my ear, and rubbed with steel scissors. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
They were flayed alive, or pulled apart with little pincers, or clasped in the arms of the red-hot. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
Campaign plan: sweep through Kosovo on two axes, closing a pincers to trap and destroy Serb forces. From Wordnik.com. [Invading Kosovo: A Battle Plan] Reference
Some ended in pincers, others in barbed points, and others in clusters of flexible metal tentacles. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavern of the Shining Ones] Reference
I then grasp the end of the ribbon with a pair of pincers, light the other end, and make my exposure. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885] Reference
It had to be a scorpion, look at its pincers, and its claw-like mouth, and its whip-like tail, I argued. From Wordnik.com. [Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Fear and Verbal First Aid for Children] Reference
It is armed with pincers, which it uses much as the elephant does his trunk, though with infinite celerity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference
Pull fairly tight, but not too tight, and do not use pincers for this part; quarter-inch tacks will be best. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
The arms can also be drawn together like pincers, and made to grip objects and carry them up to the surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 36, July 15, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference
I can only compare the sensation of hunger I experienced to that of twenty pairs of pincers tearing at my stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843] Reference
In the Landau factory, project manager Jurgen Becker watches giant pincers remove a wheel from a polishing machine. From Wordnik.com. [EU to Lift China Duties on Wheels] Reference
These pincers are then thrown into circuit, and a powerful current is passed through the part which is to be soldered. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
But by now the Taliban are caught between two pincers; they are as suspicious of Islamabad as they are of U.S. overtures. From Wordnik.com. [So Many Documents, So Little Revelation] Reference
The two red-garbed executioners had set aside their red-hot pincers and were dragging the heretic up the ladder to the scaffold. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The character must hold a tool in his left hand see 'pincers' in the added files (this tool/hand must also overlap the perimeter circle. From Wordnik.com. [Freelancer.com - New Projects] Reference
In the Jamestown collection are many tools which they left behind, including pliers, pincers, chisels, punches, hammers, and a small anvil. From Wordnik.com. [New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America] Reference
He went into the barn, and came out wearing a pair of rubber boots, and carrying a pair of pincers -- the "wire-cutting things," as Freddie called them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat] Reference
The larvæ may be distinguished from other aquatic creatures by the long insect-like body, three pairs of legs, and the "mask" -- a flap with pincers at the end. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Round came the claws, wide open, and snapped shut close to his fingers; but he had grasped his prize at the one spot where the brandishing pincers could not reach him. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
His reformation was accomplished by the use of planes, augers, saws, pincers and other instruments suitable for removing horns, tusks and claws from a dangerous animal, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
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