/pin"seuhrz/ , n. ( usually used with a pl. v. )
1. a gripping tool consisting of two pivoted limbs forming a pair of jaws and a pair of handles (usually used with pair of ).
2. Zool. a grasping organ or pair of organs resembling this, as the claw of a lobster.
Also, pinchers .
[ 1300-50; ME pinsers, earlier pynceours, pl. of * pinceour pince ( r ) to PINCH + -our -OR 2 ]