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Meanings of pincers in английском

Pliers made of steel for removing nails from wood.

Usage of pincers in английском
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
6
This insect looked at Jurgen, and its pincers rose erect in horror.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
7
Now, with a pair of pincers hold the ends, and using No.
Woodcraft
8
Each had her own wrenches and pincers to use for that purpose.
The Guardian Angel
9
His hands kept opening and closing like the pincers on a crawdad.
Knockemstiff
10
The stag beetle's gigantic pincers pierce my flesh just below the sternum.
Drood: a novel
11
First, Stubbe was flayed alive, his skin peeled off with red-hot pincers.
Vampire forensics: uncovering the origins of an enduring legend
12
There's one of them like a flat-iron, with pincers at the point.
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
13
A wrench followed; a yell was the result, and the pincers slipped!
The Lighthouse
14
One can seize one's neck in iron pincers, and say: You shall!
The Great Hunger
15
The black ant had the slightly larger red ant in its pincers.
The marks of cain
16
The truck looked like someone had taken a giant pincers to it.
Three to get deadly and four to score
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common