noun
Meaning 1
plural of pincer
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pincers
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈpɪnsəɹz/
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noun
Meaning 2
A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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noun
Meaning 3
The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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Meaning relationships
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History
Etymology
From Middle English pynsours, from Old French pinceure, pinchure, from pincier (“to pinch”).
Across languages
Translations
114 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: كَلْبَتَان (kalbatān) — gripping tool
- Armenian: աքցան (akʻcʻan) — gripping tool
- Aromanian: cleashti — gripping tool
- Azerbaijani: kəlbətin — gripping tool
- Bashkir: ҡыпһыуыр (qıphıwır) — gripping tool
- Bashkir: ҡыпсыуыр (qıpsıwır) — gripping tool
- Belarusian: абцугі́ (abcuhí) — gripping tool
- Belarusian: кле́шчы (kljéščy) — gripping tool
- Belarusian: шчыпцы́ (ščypcý) — gripping tool
- Bulgarian: кле́щи (kléšti) — gripping tool
- Catalan: tenalles — gripping tool
- Chechen: морзах (morzax) — gripping tool
- Chinese Mandarin: 鉗子 /钳子 (qiánzi) — gripping tool
- Chinese Mandarin: 鉗 /钳 (qián) — gripping tool
- Czech: kleště — gripping tool
- Dutch: knijptang — gripping tool
- Estonian: näpitsad — gripping tool
- Estonian: naelatangid — gripping tool
- Finnish: hohtimet — gripping tool
- French: tenaille — gripping tool
- French: pinces — gripping tool
- Galician: tenaces — gripping tool
- Georgian: მარწუხი (marc̣uxi) — gripping tool
- Georgian: მაშები (mašebi) — gripping tool
- German: Kneifzange — gripping tool
- German: Beißzange — gripping tool
- German: Kantenzange — gripping tool
- German: Monierzange — gripping tool
- Greek: τανάλια (tanália) — gripping tool
- Hungarian: harapófogó — gripping tool
- Ido: pinco — gripping tool
- Ido: tenalio — gripping tool
- Ingrian: pihet — gripping tool
- Ingrian: pihtelet — gripping tool
- Irish: teanchair — gripping tool
- Italian: tenaglia — gripping tool
- Japanese: やっとこ (yattoko) — gripping tool
- Japanese: 矢床 (yattoko) — gripping tool
- Japanese: ペンチ (penchi) — gripping tool
- Khalaj: ambur — gripping tool
- Korean: 펜치 (penchi) — gripping tool
- Korean: 못뽑이 (motppobi) — gripping tool
- Korean: 족집게 (jokjipge) — gripping tool
- Latin: forceps — gripping tool
- Macedonian: клешти (klešti) — gripping tool
- Māori: kuku — gripping tool
- Norwegian Bokmål: tang — gripping tool
- Norwegian Bokmål: knipetang — gripping tool
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tong — gripping tool
- Norwegian Nynorsk: knipetong — gripping tool
- Old Galician-Portuguese: tẽaz — gripping tool
- Persian: انبرک (anborak) — gripping tool
- Persian: انبردست (anbordast) — gripping tool
- Persian: انبر (anbor) — gripping tool
- Polish: kleszcze — gripping tool
- Polish: obcęgi — gripping tool
- Portuguese: tenaz — gripping tool
- Portuguese: pinça — gripping tool
- Rade: pen — gripping tool
- Romanian: clește — gripping tool
- Russian: кле́щи (kléšči) — gripping tool
- Russian: щипцы́ (ščipcý) — gripping tool
- Serbo-Croatian: кле́ште — gripping tool
- Serbo-Croatian: клије́ште — gripping tool
- Serbo-Croatian: kléšte — gripping tool
- Serbo-Croatian: klijéšte — gripping tool
- Slovak: kliešte — gripping tool
- Slovene: klešče — gripping tool
- Lower Sorbian: klěšće — gripping tool
- Southern Altai: кыскаш (kïskaš) — gripping tool
- Spanish: tenaza — gripping tool
- Spanish: tenazas — gripping tool
- Spanish: pinzas — gripping tool
- Swedish: tång — gripping tool
- Swedish: hovtång — gripping tool
- Swedish: kniptång — gripping tool
- Tagalog: bahaypato — gripping tool
- Tajik: анбӯр (anbür) — gripping tool
- Tamil: இடுக்கி (iṭukki) — gripping tool
- Tarifit: iɣendan — gripping tool
- Thai: คีม (kiim) — gripping tool
- Turkish: kerpeten — gripping tool
- Ottoman Turkish: كرپدن (kerpeden) — gripping tool
- Ottoman Turkish: قیصاج (kısac) — gripping tool
- Ukrainian: клі́щі (klíšči) — gripping tool
- Ukrainian: обце́ньки (obcénʹky) — gripping tool
- Ukrainian: щи́пці (ščýpci) — gripping tool
- Uzbek: ombur — gripping tool
- Uzbek: qisqich — gripping tool
- Vietnamese: kềm — gripping tool
- Vietnamese: kìm — gripping tool
- Asturian: boca — front claws
- Bulgarian: щи́пци (štípci) — front claws
- Czech: klepeta — front claws
- Estonian: sõrad — front claws
- Finnish: sakset — front claws
- French: pinces — front claws
- German: Krebsschere — front claws
- Ingrian: pihet — front claws
- Irish: ordóg — front claws
- Italian: pinze — front claws
- Norwegian Bokmål: klo — front claws
- Norwegian Nynorsk: klo — front claws
- Portuguese: patolas — front claws
- Romanian: clește — front claws
- Russian: клешня́ (klešnjá) — front claws
- Russian: клешни́ (klešní) — front claws
- Lower Sorbian: klěšće — front claws
- Spanish: pinzas — front claws
- Spanish: tenazas — front claws
- Tamil: இடுக்கி (iṭukki) — front claws
- Tamil: கொடுக்கு (koṭukku) — front claws
- Thai: ก้าม (gâam) — front claws
- Turkish: kıskaç — front claws