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One who, or that which, pinches.

An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.

The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects.

projecting part of it, so that the whole may be ised for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike.

Strong pinchers or forceps.

The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc.

A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc.

Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers. Bacon.

Small pinchers for curling the hair. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.

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A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.

Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.

ments. Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake. Shak. -- Wafer irons, or Wafer tongs (Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked. -- Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. Beau. & Fl.