Portuguese
pinça A hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping.
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Belinda's hands claw, and so does the wind-whipped surface of the sea.
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Before it finished falling, another was trying to claw its way past.
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In Oman, investment companies rallied, helping Muscat's index claw back Wednesday's losses.
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Even without looking, he knew the colo claw fish was in pursuit.
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Has he come to try to claw back his shares in Kruger-Brent?
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Gravely he dismissed the hypothesis of Stevie being a drunken young nipper.
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He lurched around sightlessly, still swinging and thrusting out his nipper stick.
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You should have heard that nipper say ''Arf a mo', old un!'
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Rat's meal! Spitefully he retaliated by deliberately using his nipper stick.
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One veteran nipper, Brian Thorne, told me, Everyone has a skill.
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Certain things cannot be revealed until the chela, or pupil, is ready.
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With these words Babaji placed his healing hand on the chela's disfigured shoulder.
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A woman chela once asked the guru for his photograph.
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The chela pointed to a broad-shouldered, fine-featured man with long hair and hoary beard.
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I put some questions to a near-by woman chela while Ananda Moyi Ma remained entranced.
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The ends of the lunettes had met, the pincer tips had closed.
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The pincer was riding high on her neck, tilting her jaw back.
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Its right pincer had been amputated, just like my right arm.
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His largest pincer bit into my shoulder; his hollow shout resounded.
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Providing he ignored the sharp pincer sensation besetting his crotch at every motion.
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The metal pincer produced a loud clang as it hit the metal table.
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Ninedenine stopped in front of Threepio, raising her pincer hands expansively.
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Oxas falls for it like a total dumbass and charges into a pincer.
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A crab-claw pincer gouged a hole through my sweatpants and into my leg.
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It looked like a pincer desperate to tear something out of his skull.
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The giant spider crab's skull still looms there, complete with 2-foot pincer claws.
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This halide-bridged metal dimer shows that coordination chemistry is possible with protein-modified pincer-metal complexes.
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He stood aside, with the globular weapon of the ray in a pincer hand.
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They cornered him in a pincer movement and one went for a rugby tackle.
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He focuses intently, brow knit, as he pushes a pen with a pincer-like hand.
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They were attempting to trap me in a pincer maneuver.
