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Meanings of pincer in anglès

portuguès
pinça

A hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping.

pinça
portuguès
puã
català
pinça

A grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods.

pinça

Pliers made of steel for removing nails from wood.

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Examples for "pincers"
Examples for "pincers"
1
One should work on it with a pair of pincers, he said.
Reuters
2
Gi-Had must have come looking for her and found the artisan's pincers.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
3
New arms sprouted from golden sides, ending in jagged claws and pincers.
From hell with love
4
Ptolemy raised one multiclawed hand and clacked the long, sharp pincers together.
Navigators of Dune
5
The two arachnids nearest her arm raised their pincers, ready to fight.
Paul of dune
Usage of pincer in anglès
1
The ends of the lunettes had met, the pincer tips had closed.
The Metal Monster
2
The pincer was riding high on her neck, tilting her jaw back.
The Naked God
3
Its right pincer had been amputated, just like my right arm.
Forgiving ararat
4
His largest pincer bit into my shoulder; his hollow shout resounded.
Wandl the Invader
5
Providing he ignored the sharp pincer sensation besetting his crotch at every motion.
The Naked God
6
The metal pincer produced a loud clang as it hit the metal table.
Mass Effect: Deception
7
Ninedenine stopped in front of Threepio, raising her pincer hands expansively.
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
8
Oxas falls for it like a total dumbass and charges into a pincer.
Anathem
9
A crab-claw pincer gouged a hole through my sweatpants and into my leg.
Storm front
10
It looked like a pincer desperate to tear something out of his skull.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
11
The giant spider crab's skull still looms there, complete with 2-foot pincer claws.
The Irish Times
12
This halide-bridged metal dimer shows that coordination chemistry is possible with protein-modified pincer-metal complexes.
Pubmed
13
He stood aside, with the globular weapon of the ray in a pincer hand.
Wandl the Invader
14
They cornered him in a pincer movement and one went for a rugby tackle.
The Guardian
15
He focuses intently, brow knit, as he pushes a pen with a pincer-like hand.
Rock and Ice Magazine
16
They were attempting to trap me in a pincer maneuver.
Fear nothing
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català
pinça
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