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pincers

noun
/ˈpɪnsəɹz/

Etymology

From Middle English pynsours, from Old French pinceure, pinchure, from pincier (“to pinch”).

  1. derived from pinceure
  2. inherited from pynsours

Definitions

  1. plural of pincer

  2. A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.

    • Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.

  3. The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at pincers. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01pincers02claws03claw04chela05arachnid06scorpions07scorpion

A definitional loop anchored at pincers. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at pincers

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA