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pincers

/pin-serz/US // ˈpɪn sərz //UK // (ˈpɪnsəz) //

钳子,钳工,钳,拑

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles.
    • : Zoology. a grasping organ or pair of organs resembling this, as the claw of a lobster.

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Examples

  • And the nightmare clutch laid hold upon his heart with giant pincers.

  • Some of the figures are being roasted, twitched with red-hot pincers, partly baked, or forced to swallow fire.

  • He was conscious of a brief pain in one finger, and the next instant someone tore the finger out of his hand with red hot pincers.

  • He had put on a stone-cloth shirt, and seizing iron pincers, he lifted off an iron cover.

  • The pincers gripe, the pliers handle; the one is like the closed hand, the other like the fingers.