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pincers

noun as in grippers

Strong matches

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Example Sentences

And the nightmare clutch laid hold upon his heart with giant pincers.

Some of the figures are being roasted, twitched with red-hot pincers, partly baked, or forced to swallow fire.

He was conscious of a brief pain in one finger, and the next instant someone tore the finger out of his hand with red hot pincers.

He had put on a stone-cloth shirt, and seizing iron pincers, he lifted off an iron cover.

The pincers gripe, the pliers handle; the one is like the closed hand, the other like the fingers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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