Pincer
['pinsə(r)]
Definition
(noun.) a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of feeling pincers on your flesh, denotes that you will be burdened with exasperating cares. Any dream of pincers, signifies unfortunate incidents.
Editor: Omar
Examples
- Yes,' said Mrs Wilfer, 'the man came himself with a pair of pincers, and took it off, and took it away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Greenough for a sewing machine having a double pointed needle with an eye in the middle, which needle was drawn through the work by pairs of traveling pincers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Then comes the pulling-over machine, the pincers of which draw the leather securely against the wood of the last, to which it is fastened by other tacks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You wouldn't get what you want, of me, no, not if you brought pincers with you to tear it out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The front pair of legs terminate in very strong and heavy pincers, and the last pair are fitted with others weaker and much narrower. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Then turning round its body, it extracts the white albuminous substance with its posterior and narrow pair of pincers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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