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tweezer

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tweez·er  (twzr)
n.
Tweezers.
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Noun1.tweezertweezer - a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping
pair of pincers, pair of tweezers, pincer
hand tool - a tool used with workers' hands
roach clip, roach holder - metal tweezers used by marijuana smokers to hold a roach
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He was like one of those unreasoning but still highly useful, multum in parvo, Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior -- though a little swelled --of a common pocket knife; but containing, not only blades of various sizes, but also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls, pens, rulers, nail-filers, counter-sinkers.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Beneath its shade there sat a stout and elderly lady in a pink cote-hardie, leaning back among a pile of cushions, and plucking out her eyebrows with a small pair of silver tweezers.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Then Philip took up the scalpel and the tweezers and began working while the other looked on.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
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