pincer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++pin·cer /ˈpɪnsə $ -ər/ noun 1. [countable usually plural]HBF one of the pair of claws that some shellfish and insects have, used for holding and cutting food, and for fighting 螯2. pincers [plural]TZ a tool made of two crossed pieces of metal used for holding things tightly 钳子
Examples from the Corpus
pincer• Those at either end of the line usually advance rather faster than those in the centre so that a pincer movement develops.• Kino seemed to picture a kind of great Catholic pincers to squeeze out the Protestant intrusion.• Suddenly he grabs her pincers with his.• Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures.• In one later incarnation, she is depicted as severe, with a scalpel and a large pair of pincers.• Bovis are using a special pincer machine to demolish covered ground level car parks.• They had thus executed a vast pincer movement, and won the first round.Origin pincer (1300-1400) Old French pincier “to pinch”pin·cer nounChineseSyllable
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pincer
pin‧cer /ˈpɪnsə $ -ər/
noun
2. pincers [plural] a tool made of two crossed pieces of metal used for holding things tightly
pin‧cer /ˈpɪnsə $ -ər/
noun Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: pincier 'to pinch'
1. [countable usually plural] one of the pair of claws that some shellfish and insects have, used for holding and cutting food, and for fightingLanguage: Old French
Origin: pincier 'to pinch'
2. pincers [plural] a tool made of two crossed pieces of metal used for holding things tightly
