Thesaurus: nippers

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1. n. pl. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
2. n. pl. A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.
3. n. pl. A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
4. 1. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting. 2. (Mach.) A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form. 3. (Naut.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
5. A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holdingor conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching asheet and conveying it to the form.
6. n a young person of either sex n a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods