tweezer

English

Adjective

tweezer (not comparable)

1. (attributive) tweezers.

Noun

tweezer (plural tweezers)

1. (US) A pair of tweezers, tweezers.

Derived terms

• optical tweezer

 

Verb

tweezer (third-person singular simple present tweezers, present participle tweezering, simple past and past participle tweezered)

1. To use tweezers.
   • 2011, William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest:

     Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers […]