pincers - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Middle English pynsours, from Old French pinceure, pinchure, from pincier (“to pinch”).
pincers
pincers pl (plural only)
- A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107:
Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.
- The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.
front claws
- Bulgarian: щи́пци (bg) f pl (štípci)
- Czech: klepeta n pl
- Estonian: sõrad pl
- Finnish: sakset (fi) pl
- French: pinces (fr) f pl
- German: Krebsschere (de) f
- Ingrian: pihet
- Irish: ordóg (ga) f
- Italian: pinze (it) f pl
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: patolas (pt) f
- Romanian: clește (ro) m
- Russian: клешня́ (ru) f (klešnjá), клешни́ (ru) f pl (klešní)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: klěšće pl
- Spanish: pinzas (es) f pl, tenazas f pl
- Thai: ก้าม (th) (gâam)