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pincer

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1. pincer - Noun

2. pincer - Verb

Meaning

a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods

a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping

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The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincer machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. Daniel Handler

Where [goes] a horse with [its] hoof, there [goes] a crayfish with [its] pincer. Russian Proverb

Allied forces would project north from Belgium, convert through the Netherlands, across the Rhine and consolidate north of Arnhem on the Dutch/German border ready to close the pincer. Source: Internet

In actuality, the entire plot of the movie is actually a time pincer movement because at that point when Neil gives the Protagonist his part of the Algorithm to keep, it's clear what Tenet is. Source: Internet

In the summer, the MR-26-7 went on the offensive, pushing the army out of the mountains, with Castro using his columns in a pincer movement to surround the main army concentration in Santiago. Source: Internet

Next, Donyo Dorje, the Bönpo king of Beri in Kham was found writing to the Tsangpa king in Shigatse to propose a co-ordinated 'pincer attack' on the Lhasa Gelugpa monasteries from east and west, seeking to utterly destroy them once and for all. Source: Internet

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