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Definition of Plyers
1. Noun. A gripping hand tool with two hinged arms and (usually) serrated jaws.
Generic synonyms: Compound Lever, Hand Tool
Terms within: Jaw
Specialized synonyms: Locking Pliers, Needlenose Pliers, Pump-type Pliers, Rib Joint Pliers, Slip-joint Pliers
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Definition of Plyers
1. Noun. (plural of plyer) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plyers
1. plyer [n] - See also: plyer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plyers
Literary usage of Plyers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"History of the Fleet registers—Origin of the Fleet marriages—The shameful practices
of parsons and plyers—Description of the ceremony attendant upon a Fleet ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The inner square is traversed with a cross, which serves for a counterpoise ;
and the chains which hang from the extremities of the plyers, to lift up or ..."
3. The Mechanic's Companion: Or, The Elements and Practice of Carpentry by Peter Nicholson (1831)
"... successively to the file which is used by tie right. The square nosed hand-vice
is seldom used, but in filing small globulous work. §7. THE plyers ..."
4. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1826)
"13, are the plyers with the machinery connected as described in fig. 10, with
the addition of two levers to assist in removing the plyers. Fig. ..."
5. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"History of the Fleet registers—Origin of the Fleet marriages—The shameful practices
of parsons and plyers—Description of the ceremony attendant upon a Fleet ..."
6. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The inner square is traversed with a cross, which serves for a counterpoise ;
and the chains which hang from the extremities of the plyers, to lift up or ..."
7. The Mechanic's Companion: Or, The Elements and Practice of Carpentry by Peter Nicholson (1831)
"... successively to the file which is used by tie right. The square nosed hand-vice
is seldom used, but in filing small globulous work. §7. THE plyers ..."
8. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress edited by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1826)
"13, are the plyers with the machinery connected as described in fig. 10, with
the addition of two levers to assist in removing the plyers. Fig. ..."
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