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pincern. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French pynceour. Etymology: Apparently < Anglo-Norman pynceour (1338: see note below) < pincer (see pinch v.) + -eour -er suffix2. Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French pinchure pincers, tongs (end of the 12th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman in plural form pinchures ), Middle French, French pince pincers (1564 or earlier in this sense, but already in late 14th cent. in transferred sense ‘torturer’), claws of a crustacean (1660), Anglo-Norman pinches (plural) forceps (mid 13th cent. or earlier). Compare also pinsons n.Anglo-Norman pynceour is apparently attested only in a Latin context:1338 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 376 iij weggis de ferro, j par de pynceours de ferro. It is unclear whether the following example is to be interpreted as showing the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word:1371 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 129 j par de pinsers. With senses 3 and Compounds 2 compare German Zange pincers (1915 or earlier in a military context, used of the tactics employed by Paul von Hindenburg (see Hindenburg Line n.) against the Russian army). society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers a1400 (?a1325) (Harl.) (1875) 905 Ioseph and nychodeme, to clymbe þey fonde, With pynsours pryuyly and ouþer gere. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 96 Pynsoures [1483 BL Add. 89074 a paire of Pynsours]. 1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria f. 187v Two mouthes lyke vnto a paire of smaule pinsers. 1590 E. Spenser iii. xii. sig. Oo3v A paire of Pincers in his hand he had, With which he pinched people to the hart. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán i. 233 As if they had pull'd out his eyes with Pincers, and held him by the nose with corne-tongs. 1664 H. Power i. 11 A Wood-Louse..hath two pointers also before, like a pair of pincers. 1721 E. Young v. ii The flesh will quiver, where the pincers tear. 1774 T. Pennant 74 Small pincers for the purpose of extirpating hairs. 1797 R. Southey xiv. 251 A pointed instrument to raise the wick, and a small pincers to prune it. 1855 A. Bain ii. ii. 511 He [sc. Newton] has always his mind ready to seize it with the mathematical pincers. 1873 E. Spon 1st Ser. 188/2 The flask is then removed from the fire by wooden pincers. 1929 F. A. Pottle (1930) 110 The surgeon clips it [sc. the blood vessel] with a haemostat, another variety of pincers with handles like manicure scissors. 1995 16 Nov. 30/4 Slim pincers for cracking lobster claws. the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > prehensile organ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of > teeth > incisor(s) the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > pincer-like claws 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. ix. xxxi. 252 Crabs live long: eight clees or feet they haue apeece; all crooked and hooked... Moreouer, two of their legs or arms are forked and toothed like pincers.] 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in (rev. ed.) Ep. Ded. Their [sc. green locusts'] pincers..are as sharp as keen rasors. 1713 J. Addison in 9 Sept. 2/1 Every Ant brings a small Particle of that Earth in her Pincers. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre (1799) I. 554 The feet of animals which scramble among rocks are provided with pincers. 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence (ed. 2) I. xv. 494 [The bee] next seizes one of the laminæ of wax with a pincer formed by the posterior metatarsus and tibia. 1848 2 No. 6. 300 The mandibular arms have a short..pincer, with a moveable nipper (mordant) placed above. 1880 T. H. Huxley iii. 95 A living crayfish is able to perform very varied movements with its pincers. 1976 K. Thackeray ix. 189 A crawling mass of..large safari ants with big pincers. 1988 D. Rees xvii. 178 The ‘Crab’ cramp is an example of a design that was not intended to look like a crab's pincer. society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > other manoeuvres 1917 13 Oct. 1917 In the summer of 1915, when the famous ‘pincers’ were pressing upon the great Polish salient and threatening Warsaw. 1942 T. Rattigan ii. i. 38 There wasn't anything fresh, I suppose. No pincers on anything anywhere? 1969 G. MacBeth 73 Firing turn by turn, Encircling him with pincers..At last..we killed him. 1984 J. Heller ix. 236 Joab never could get into that obtuse military mind of his the obvious proposition that in war one side's salient is the other side's pincer. Compounds C1. a. 1860 T. Carlyle Let. to J. Ruskin 29 Oct. in Nov. 105 I marvel in parts..at the pincer-grip..you take of certain bloated cheeks and blown-up bellies. 1963 A. Greenbank ix. 100 On narrow ribs of rock a hold can sometimes be obtained with the fingers in a ‘pincer grip’, a pure balance aid with thumb and forefinger. 2000 Apr. 68/4 She..develops the pincer grip, using her thumb and forefinger. b. the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > prehensile organ 1909 20 Aug. 4/4 Note the disparity in the size of the two large pincer-legs. 2002 (Nexis) 12 May 3 It lumbers around the arena trying to stab its prey with the pointy tips of its pincer legs, upon which it must also balance. society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [noun] > other manoeuvres society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [adjective] > other manoeuvres 1918 26 Aug. 7/3 (headline) Great days. The pincer process. Contrast with 1916. 1939 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood ix. 225 The Japs were to be..destroyed by the time-honoured pincer-movement. 1944 S. Putnam tr. E. da Cunha x. 458 As may be seen, it was a vigorous pincers movement which was thus planned. 1968 8 Oct. 7/7 Hardened layers of sediment which accumulated on the bottom of the Tethys Sea and were later thrust up to the surface by the pincer movement of the two continental masses. 1997 D. Hansen xiv. 161 If the two patrol boats were swapping places, the Shoto Maru ran the risk of being caught in a pincer movement. Derivatives society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [adjective] > pincers 1611 R. Cotgrave Louve de fer,..the (pinser-like) hooke of a Crane, &c. 1688 R. Holme iii. xiii. 496/2 (list of armorial bearings) Pincer like Spatula Linguæ. 1856 P. H. Gosse v. 52 Several observers have noticed the seizure of small roving animals by these pincer-like beaks. 1941 H. G. Wells v. iii. 249 When confronted by a pincer-like movement, a soldier and a gentleman abandons his men and material and bolts home. 1990 Aug. 162/1 The men went to work with the Jaws of Life, a hydraulic, pincer-like tool of extraordinary power. 1932 18 142 Approaches and plucks pincerwise with increased deftness. 1940 H. Thompson in A. Gesell et al. vii. 183 If the child chooses a block without testing them say, ‘No, like this,’ and demonstrate lifting the blocks pincer-wise. 1968 E. V. Watson (ed. 2) 99 Tips of l[ea]f lobes often turned in pincerwise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pincerv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pincer n. Etymology: < pincer n. Compare earlier pinch v. 4. the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > affect with anguish or torment the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > nip or pinch 1620 J. Howell Let. 12 May in I. xvii. 34 Then his body was pincer'd, and hot Oyl powr'd into the holes. 1703 S. Parker tr. Eusebius viii. 147 The Judge..gave in Order that she should be Pincer'd worse than ever any Body yet had been. 1864 T. Carlyle IV. xvi. i. 243 Face, not pincered together. 1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ (U.K. ed.) 188 The pain of his wound racked and pincered his nerves. 1968 B. Hines 148 Selecting the longest bone, he pincered it, pin thin, between his forefinger and thumb. 1990 J. Rogers (BNC) 153 She ate them [sc. currants] so beautifully, one by one, held painstakingly pincered between thumb and index finger. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1400 v.1620 |
