A tool with two hinged arms for gripping or holding objects tightly; also the large claws of crustaceans like crabs and lobsters.
From Old French 'pincier' meaning 'to pinch,' from 'pincer.' Related to 'pinch,' ultimately from Vulgar Latin 'pinctiare.'
A crab's pincers and a carpenter's pincers look nothing alike, yet we call them the same thing because they do the same job—they grip and control—showing how humans see function and structure as the same across nature and tools.
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