| 单词 | pair of twitchers |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspair of twitchers a. In plural. Tweezers or small pincers used to pluck out hairs. Also in pair of twitchers. Also occasionally in singular in the same sense. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers > small pincette?1533 twitcher?a1549 tweezers1654 pair of tuckers1658 tweezer1904 ?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 95/2 Item a paire of twicchers of silver. 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio vii. 44 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) With a small kind of Pincers and twitchers, such as those, wherewith we take off the hair of the mustachoes. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 427/1 A Twitcher, or Twitchers; by them Hair superfluously growing in any part is pulled up by the Roots. < as lemmas |
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