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pincers Noun, pl 1. a gripping tool consisting of two hinged arms and curved jaws 2. the jointed grasping arms of crabs and lobsters [Old French pincier to pinch]
 Translations pincers [ˈpɪnsəz] npl → pinzas fpl; tenazas fpl pincers [ˈpɪnsəz] npl → tenailles fpl pincers [ˈpɪnsəz] npl (tool) → Kneifzange f [of crab, lobster etc] → Schere f pincers [ˈpɪnsəz] npl → pinzette fpl |
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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. The front pair of legs terminate in very strong and heavy pincers, and the last pair are fitted with others weaker and much narrower. 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. |
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