pincer
- n a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping
- n a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
- They could act with China to put a counter-pincer on the Japanese pincer in the Indies.
- On the screen a tiny pincer appears.
- The fall of Bengasi was brought about by swift execution of the familiar tactic of the giant pincer.