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pincer

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pin·cer  (pnsr)
n.
1. An object resembling one of the grasping parts of a set of pincers.
2. A maneuver in which an enemy force is attacked from two flanks and the front.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.pincerpincer - a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping
pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, tweezer
hand tool - a tool used with workers' hands
roach clip, roach holder - metal tweezers used by marijuana smokers to hold a roach
2.pincer - a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
chela, nipper, claw
crustacean - any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton
appendage, extremity, member - an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm"


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Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
The front pair of legs terminate in very strong and heavy pincers, and the last pair are fitted with others weaker and much narrower.
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
Another has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow unmanageably winces under the unconcluded operation; whirling round the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs him to clap his jaw in that, if he would have him draw the tooth.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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