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Definition of Pinchers
1. n. pl. An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
Definition of Pinchers
1. Noun. (plural of pincher) ¹
2. Noun. (alternative form of pincers) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinchers
1. pincher [n] - See also: pincher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinchers
Literary usage of Pinchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Western Live-stock Management by Ermine Lawrence Potter, Carl N. Kennedy, George Roy Samson, Oran Milton Nelson (1917)
"The instruments used in docking are a sharp pocket- knife, docking chisel, or
docking pinchers. The knife needs no explanation. ..."
2. Age of the Domestic Animals: Being a Complete Treatise on the Dentition of by Rush Shippen Huidekoper (1891)
"At nine and ten years this concavity extends to the intermediate teeth, the table
of the pinchers is almost square, and the dental star of the pinchers and ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"A WARNING TO pinchers. A dignitary of the Church was dining out. Of the two ladies
between whom he was seated, the one on his right-hand side was an ..."
4. Living Creatures of Water, Land and Air: For the Fourth Reader Grade by John Monteith (1888)
"LIVING pinchers. IN most parts of the country, boys need no introduction to
crawfish; and in the large city, or near the sea-coast, any one may at times see ..."
5. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel, Johann Gottfried Flügel (1861)
"... linen pinchers; — }CUg, n. linen. Arch, fillet, listel, reglet; plinth; 2.
Ooth. &c., selvage, vid. ..."
6. A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages Based Upon that of by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, John Davenport, Guglielmo Comelati (1873)
"Sfc. V. to pinch, tutti i sensi ; 2. pinchers, apple, ananás, m. — clad, — crowned,
co- (legno) : 3. (t. di Bot.) ananas, m. — pe'rlo, adói-по di pint. ..."
7. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Workedited by Thomas Edward Finegan edited by Thomas Edward Finegan (1922)
"... claws or pinchers. The eyes are compound, with hexagonal facets, and are
pedunculated, elongated and movable. Like most individuals of the class, ..."
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