plural. Forceps, pincers, nippers; cf. tenaculum, n. 1. Obsolete.

In various transferred and technical applications. Name for an ancient surgical forceps: see quot. Obsolete.

any of various weapons and tools having a head resembling the bill of a raven.

A tool or implement that resembles or is likened to a parrot's bill; spec. †(a) a kind of surgical forceps (obsolete); (b) a war hammer with a point…

The bill of a duck. Applied to certain instruments of this shape, chiefly in surgery. Also attributive.

a kind of surgical forceps (cf. crane's-bill, n. 2).

An instrument of the pincers kind, used for seizing and holding objects, esp. in surgical and obstetric operations.

plural. A pair of pincers, a forceps. Obsolete.

(See quot. 1684 and volsellum, n.)

Surgery. A species of forceps: see quots.

Technical uses. A type of surgical scissors or forceps with curved or asymmetrical blades thought to resemble a bird's beak. Obsolete. rare.

Surgery. A kind of forceps with long jaws.

A kind of forceps for holding a surgical needle.

A kind of forceps used in surgical operations. Also attributive.

= volsellum, n. Also attributive.

attributive. (see quot. 1875).

‘Forceps with a spring catch‥the extremity of one blade pointed, of the other notched, for the reception of the point’. New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon