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clawhammer
English
Noun
clawhammer (countable and uncountable, plural clawhammers)
- Alternative form of claw hammer
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pincer
English
Alternative forms
- pincher (dated)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?ns??/
- Rhymes: -?ns?(r)
Noun
pincer (plural pincers)
- Any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers.
Derived terms
- pincer attack
Verb
pincer (third-person singular simple present pincers, present participle pincering, simple past and past participle pincered)
- (transitive, sometimes figuratively) To surround with a pincer attack.
- 1984, Robert Lamb, Competitive Strategic Management (page 115)
- After considering all frontal counteroffensive alternatives, Heublein rejected them as detrimental to its profits and came up with a brilliant pincering maneuver. It raised the price of Smirnoff by one dollar, effectively preventing segment diffusion, […]
- 1984, Robert Lamb, Competitive Strategic Management (page 115)
Anagrams
- Prince, prince
French
Etymology
From Old French pincier, pincer (“to pinch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.se/
Verb
pincer
- to pinch (skin)
- (informal) to pinch (to arrest)
- (music) To pluck (a stringed instrument)
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Further reading
- “pincer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- prince
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *pinci?re (“to puncture, pinch”).
Verb
pincer
- to pinch
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-c, *-cs, *-ct are modified to z, z, zt. In addition, c becomes ç before an a, o or u to keep the /ts/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Descendants
- Middle French: pincier, pincer
- French: pincer
- ? Bavarian: pfitzen
- ? Dutch: pinsen, pitsen
- French: pincer
- Norman: pînchi
- ? Middle English: pinchen
- English: pinch
Further reading
- “pincer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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