pincers

English

A pair of carpenter's pincers

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪnsəɹz/

Noun

pincers

1. plural of pincer

Noun

pincers pl (plural only)

1. A gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 107:

     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.

2. The front claws of crustaceans such as lobsters.

Synonyms

• forceps
• chelae, claws, nippers
• pair of pincers
• pinchers

Translations

gripping tool

• Arabic: كَلْبَتَان f du (kalbatān)
• Armenian: աքցան (hy) (akʻcʻan)
• Aromanian: cleashti f
• Azerbaijani: kəlbətin (az)
• Bashkir: ҡыпһыуыр (qıphıwır), (Eastern) ҡыпсыуыр (qıpsıwır)
• Belarusian: абцугі́ m pl (abcuhí), кле́шчы pl (kljéščy), шчыпцы́ m pl (ščypcý)
• Bulgarian: кле́щи (bg) f pl (kléšti)
• Catalan: tenalles (ca) f pl
• Chechen: морзах (morzax)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉗子／钳子 (zh) (qiánzi), 鉗／钳 (zh) (qián)

• Czech: kleště (cs) f pl
• Dutch: knijptang (nl)
• Finnish: hohtimet (fi)
• French: tenaille (fr) f, pinces (fr) f pl
• Galician: tenaces m pl
• Georgian: მარწუხი (ka) (marc̣uxi), მაშები (mašebi)
• German: Kneifzange (de) f, Beißzange (de) f, Kantenzange f, Monierzange f
• Greek: τανάλια (el) f (tanália)
• Hungarian: harapófogó (hu)
• Ido: pinco (io), tenalio (io)
• Ingrian: pihet, pihtelet
• Italian: tenaglia (it) f
• Japanese: やっとこ (ja) (yattoko), 矢床 (やっとこ, yattoko), ペンチ (ja) (penchi)
• Khalaj: ambur
• Korean: 펜치 (ko) (penchi), 못뽑이 (motppobi), 족집게 (jokjipge)
• Latin: forceps m
• Macedonian: клешти f pl (klešti)
• Maori: kuku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tang (no) m or f, knipetang m or f

  Nynorsk: tong f, knipetong f

• Old Galician-Portuguese: tẽaz f
• Ottoman Turkish: كرپدن (kerpeden), قیصاج (kısac)
• Persian: انبرک (fa) (anborak), انبردست (fa) (anbordast), انبر (fa) (anbor)
• Polish: kleszcze (pl) pl, obcęgi (pl) m pl
• Portuguese: tenaz (pt) f, pinça (pt) f
• Rade: pen
• Romanian: clește (ro) m
• Russian: кле́щи (ru) m pl (kléšči), щипцы́ (ru) m pl (ščipcý)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кле́ште f pl, клије́ште f pl

  Roman: kléšte (sh) f pl, klijéšte (sh) f pl

• Slovak: kliešte pl
• Slovene: klešče (sl) f pl
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: klěšće pl

• Spanish: tenaza (es) f, tenazas f pl, pinzas (es) f pl
• Swedish: tång (sv) c, hovtång (sv) c, kniptång (sv) c
• Tagalog: bahaypato
• Tajik: анбӯр (anbür)
• Tarifit: iɣendan m pl
• Thai: คีม (th) (kiim)
• Turkish: kerpeten (tr)
• Ukrainian: клі́щі pl (klíšči), обце́ньки pl (obcénʹky), щи́пці m pl (ščýpci)
• Uzbek: ombur (uz), qisqich (uz)
• Vietnamese: kềm (vi), kìm (vi)

front claws

• Bulgarian: щи́пци (bg) f pl (štípci)
• Czech: klepeta n pl
• Finnish: sakset (fi) pl
• French: pinces (fr) f pl
• German: Krebsschere (de) f
• Ingrian: pihet
• Irish: ordóg (ga) f
• Italian: pinze (it) f pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klo m or f

  Nynorsk: klo f

• Portuguese: patolas (pt) f
• Romanian: clește (ro) m
• Russian: клешня́ (ru) f (klešnjá), клешни́ (ru) f pl (klešní)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: klěšće pl

• Spanish: pinzas (es) f pl, tenazas f pl
• Thai: ก้าม (th) (gâam)

See also

• tongs

Anagrams

• Crespin, Princes, crispen, princes