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Pliers

noun

A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws. Synonyms: pair of pliers, plyers.

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... these men I incontinent fell into talk—a chatty fellow this, who, busied with pliers adjusting the back-sight of a rifle, talked to me of lines of sight and angles of deflection, his remarks sharply punctuated by rifle-shots, that came now slowly, now in twos and threes and now in ...

— Great Britain at War • Jeffery Farnol

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... steel; the steel softened and his nerves became pliable as leather; gripping his hands he gratefully found them supple, and taking out knife and pliers he went to ...

— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald

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... struck Vane, and he jumped up, thrust a pair of pliers, a little screw-wrench and a pair of pincers into his pockets ...

— The Weathercock - Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias • George Manville Fenn

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... do something pretty soon they'll so fasten this crime on Jimmie Darcy that you'll never be able to get him out of the tangle," said Mr. Kettridge, as he poked a pair of pliers among the parts of the watch. "Carroll and Thong, now that they know about the electrical wires, think they have all the evidence they need, and the prosecutor ...

— The Diamond Cross Mystery - Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story • Chester K. Steele

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Words linked to "Pliers" : plural form, compound lever, jaw, needlenose pliers, hand tool, plural, slip-joint pliers