Definition of Pincerlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a pincer or some aspect of one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pincerlike

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pincerlike

pinballing
pinboard
pinboards
pinbone
pinbones
pincase
pincases
pince-nez
pincement
pincer
pincer attack
pincer nail
pincered
pincering
pincerlike (current term)
pincers
pinch
pinch-hit
pinch-hits
pinch-hitter
pinch-hitting
pinch and a punch for the first of the month
pinch bar
pinch cake
pinch effect
pinch graft
pinch hit
pinch hits

Literary usage of Pincerlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Aboriginal American Antiquities: Part I. Introductory: The by William Henry Holmes (1919)
"(b) Chipping thin-edged bits of stone held in one hand with a pincerlike or a notched bone tool held in the other hand and moved with an " impulsive twist," ..."

2. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of Change (1994)
"Some of the short-spined tropical urchins are reported to be hazardous because they have tiny pincerlike organs, ..."

3. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Scorpion showing the special development of certain mouth parts (the maxillary pulpi) aa pincerlike organs for grasping. On the posterior tip of the body is ..."

4. Diversions of a Naturalist by Edwin Ray Lankester (1915)
"A deep blood-red coloured prawn (Alpheus) darts from concealment and hastily buries itself in the sandy bottom of the pool, snapping its pincerlike claw ..."

5. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"He has been noticed to feed the anemone with his pincerlike claws.' And when he casts his shell for a larger one,' he carefully detaches the helpless ..."

6. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1873)
"... all through the room Juvenile lobsters are flitting about; But they cannot compare With that brute over there With his pincerlike claws and his terrible ..."

7. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"It will fearlessly attack any creature that affronts it, and will close its pincerlike forelegs on any object thrust in its path. The forelegs are very long ..."

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