Crossword-Solution: PINCERS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pincers | n. pl. | See Pinchers. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PINCERS | anagram | CRISPEN, PRINCES |
We have 21 clues for the answer “PINCERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| tweezers | 1 answer |
| Tool for gripping. | 1 answer |
| Nail-removing tool | 1 answer |
| Military trap maneuver. | 1 answer |
| Grasping organ | 1 answer |
| Crab features | 1 answer |
| Grasping apparatus | 1 answer |
| Grasping claws | 1 answer |
| They're gripping | 2 answers |
| Crab's claws | 2 answers |
| Lobster claws | 2 answers |
| Crab claws | 2 answers |
| Lobster feature | 4 answers |
| Holding tool. | 4 answers |
| Nippers | 5 answers |
| Military movement. | 5 answers |
| forceps | 5 answers |
| Lobster part | 6 answers |
| pliers | 10 answers |
| LOBSTER, part of the | 16 answers |
| Nipper | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PINCERS (5)
Under the guidance of her Christian pastors, she entertained herself, besides, with such humane achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body burned alive, because he had not kneeled down in the rain to do honour to a dirty procession of monks which passed within his view, at a distance of some fifty or sixty yards.
When they adhere to the shell, the fishermen often pull them off with pincers; but the most common way is to lay the oysters on mats of the seaweed which covers the banks.
Yet did I conquer that horror, in spite of its branching serpents that darted from every wound! Thinkest thou, then, that I fear thee, thou mimic snake?” And even as he spake he gripped, as with a pair of pincers, the back of the river-god's head.
Hence Shakespeare's picture of the smith in King John: "I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news." The smith's tools were of many sorts; but the chief were his hammer, pincers, chisel, tongs, and anvil.
The crab darted forward, and in the next instant the great teeth of her pincers were fastened with a tremendous grip upon the rudder and rudder-post of the Scarabaeus.
Quotes with PINCERS (3)
Torture?” she asked with a laugh. “My first piece of information I’ll divulge to you? I wouldn’t recommend trying to torture me. I dislike it and grow sulky under pincers. It’s a fault.
One understands then why woman has no sexual parts, properly speaking. It is because she is herself a sexual part - a sexual part of man, to cumbersome for him to carry around permanently and therefore deposited outside himself for most of the time and taken up when needed. Moreover the quality that distinguishes man from animals is this very power of equipping himself at any moment with an instrument, tool or arm that he needs, but that he can get rid of straight away, where…
The demon trapped in the summoning circle screamed, slamming its crablike pincers against the unseen barrier, hurling its chitinous shoulders from side to side in an effort to escape the confinement. It couldn't. I kept my will on the circle, kept the demon from bursting free." Satisfied, Chauncy?" I asked it. The demon straightened its hideous form and said, in a perfect Oxford accent, "Quite. You understand, I must observe the formalities.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, WP.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1954–2015).