TWEEZER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tweezer mean? 

• TWEEZER (noun)
  The noun TWEEZER has 1 sense:

1. a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping

  Familiarity information: TWEEZER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWEEZER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pair of pincers; pair of tweezers; pincer; tweezer

Hypernyms ("tweezer" is a kind of...):

hand tool (a tool used with workers' hands)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tweezer"):

roach clip; roach holder (metal tweezers used by marijuana smokers to hold a roach)

Derivation:

tweeze (pluck with tweezers)

 Context examples 

Nay, I have had no scath, though I have lost my silver tweezers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beneath its shade there sat a stout and elderly lady in a pink cote-hardie, leaning back among a pile of cushions, and plucking out her eyebrows with a small pair of silver tweezers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)