tongs
IPA: tˈɑŋz
noun
- An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips.
- (by extension) A large scissors-like two-piece center-hinged forged-iron implement with oval-loop handles and with pointed tips turned inward (in the same plane as and perpendicular to the handles) to facilitate lifting and carrying a block of ice. Often called ice tongs.
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Examples of "tongs" in Sentences
- Closing of the tongs cuts the wire.
- These first tongs followed the same patterns as the triads.
- The workpiece is transported to and from the forge using tongs.
- The tongs are held in the palm of a hand in a relaxed pen grasp.
- To open and close the tongs of the grapple, two cables are used.
- Sometimes a large pair of tongs are used to remove the puddle balls.
- The tool may be used as clippers, pinchers, pliers, tongs, and the like.
- He used fire tongs to take it from the fire and dropped it in Frodo's hand.
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