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• n  any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below

• So effective was it that rival or imitative tongs were soon found wherever there were Chinese colonies.
• By pilot's end, his criminal turn has perversely revived him; he's seizing the day, in this case using lab tongs and a glass flask.
• Fire tongs were discovered buried out in their backyard, which people hypothesized could be the murder weapon.

• pair of tongs

News & Articles

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• Commentary: 7 completely unavoidable, meal jeopardizing grill hazards
  The U.S. Fire Administration estimates that outside grilling causes at least 6,000 fires, $35 million in property losses, 170 injuries and five deaths each year. Seen in black an white, those stats are enough to make some want to permanently store the coals, turn off the burns and hang up the LED equipped tongs. Some, but not many. The call of meats and vegetables, but mainly meats cooking under ...
  June 14, 2013 - WHIO-TV 7 Dayton
• A lot’s at stake with Dad’s Steak
  Father’s Day grilling around my house was always fraught with tension. My dad was not the genial Fred MacMurray type. He paced irritably, chain-smoking, beside the Weber grill in the backyard of our cottage in Madison, Conn., with a kitchen timer in hand. Woe be the designated griller (me) who was not standing at attention, grill tongs and platter ready for action, when that timer dinged. My ...
  June 12, 2013 - The Southern Illinoisan
• Sublimation caused by dry ice makes spoon sing
  Have you ever heard of a singing spoon? First, drop a spoon in some very hot water. After it heats up, use tongs to take a piece of dry ice and press it against the spoon. It's the process of sublimation. The heat of the spoon reacts with the dry ice, forcing it to become a vapor. The reaction causes a noise, making the spoon "sing." For this edition of Science Break, YNN's Burton Fitzsimmons ...
  June 8, 2013 - YNN Rochester

Quotes

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• Mel Gibson in Los Angeles Times (blog)
  We're going hammer and tongs on the script right now,Gibson said. "When I was 16, learning about the history of the English language I became fascinated with Vikings. And I imagined what they would sound like, how would they talk and...
• Sir Alex Ferguson in Stuff.co.nz
  It was our best performance of the season in terms of possession,said United manager Alex Ferguson. "It's always a difficult ground for us but today everyone was on song. The first 10 minutes was hammer and tongs but once we got the ball...
• Oscar Goodman in Newsweek
  I think the breakdown will be key. The two back rows will be going hammer and tongs at each other. I think it will be a case of whoever comes out on top will get the quick ball and release their electric backs. We need to make sure that we are... Ryan Jones http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Jones&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH6oJgxcTpwNfc0WfCMUehCFEV6gw Independent Online http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iol.co.za/index.php%3Fclick_id%3D18%26art_id%3Dvn20080606070957362C259329%26set_id%3D&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHqrLT4yCJVGB2TvI4O7zvGRnpvpw Jun 5, 2008 100687 133771 tongue-in-cheek I don't think anybody is able to do tongue-in-cheek the way Las Vegas can do it," said Mayor Oscar Goodman, a former criminal defense lawyer who represented organized crime figures before representing voters in City Hall.