pliers
/ˈplʌɪəz
/(also a pair of pliers)
plural noun
Pincers with parallel, flat, and typically serrated surfaces, used chiefly for gripping small objects or bending wire: a pair of pliers...
- With pliers, bend the wire ends back into the button so they won't snag the garment fabric.
- Picking up a pair of discarded pliers he snipped two wires and replaced some of the others.
- Right next to his corpse, electric wires, clippers, pliers, and screwdrivers lie strewn across the sidewalk.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from dialect ply 'bend', from French plier 'to bend', from Latin plicare 'to fold'.
Rhymes
- West March
- Westmark
- Westmeath
- West Memphis
- West Midlands
- West Mifflin
- Westminster
- Westminster Abbey
- Westminster bubble
- Westminster chimes
- Westminster Confession
- Westminster fool
- Westminsterian
- Westminster, Palace of
- Westminster quarters
- Westminster, Statute of
- Westminster village
- Westmonasterian
- Westmorland
- westmost
- West, Nathanael
- westness
- West New York
- West Nile
- West Nile virus