pliers

• POS: Noun Plural
• HYPHEN: pli=ers

CIDE DICTIONARY

pliers, n. pl. [From Ply to bend, fold.].

 A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pliers, n.pl. pincers with parallel flat usu. serrated surfaces for holding small objects, bending wire, etc.

Etymology

(dial.) ply bend (as PLIABLE)

ROGET THESAURUS

pliers

Retention

N retention, retaining, keep, detention, custody, tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip, fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum, bond, clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice, paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif, bird in hand, captive, retaining, retentive, tenacious, unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated, incommunicable, inalienable, in mortmain, in strict settlement, uti possidetis.

Extraction

N extraction, extracting, removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution, evulsion, avulsion, wrench, expression, squeezing, extirpation, extermination, ejection, export, extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers, extracted.