PINCER


Meaning of PINCER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

pincer movement

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

movement

Those at either end of the line usually advance rather faster than those in the centre so that a pincer movement develops.

They had thus executed a vast pincer movement , and won the first round.

It is a favourite military tactic ... the pincer movement !

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Bovis are using a special pincer machine to demolish covered ground level car parks.

In one later incarnation, she is depicted as severe, with a scalpel and a large pair of pincers.

Kino seemed to picture a kind of great Catholic pincers to squeeze out the Protestant intrusion.

Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures.

Suddenly he grabs her pincers with his.

They had thus executed a vast pincer movement, and won the first round.

Those at either end of the line usually advance rather faster than those in the centre so that a pincer movement develops.

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