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pliers

/ ˈɪə /

plural noun

  1. a gripping tool consisting of two hinged arms with usually serrated jaws that close on the workpiece
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of pliers1

C16: from ply 1
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“Not the pliers — please, not the pliers,” he pleads.

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Police said she was cited for carrying a pair of pliers as a burglary tool, resisting arrest and shoplifting before she was released.

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Some of those remaining had deep gouging and scratches, which looked like marks left by pliers.

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But when officers arrived on the scene they learned that a man repeatedly struck another passenger in the chest with a pair of pliers while they were riding on the bus.

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A mother used pliers to remove her six-year-old daughter's teeth as she could not get an appointment with an NHS dentist, an MP has said.

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