pincer

• She swung around, bearing her bundle in one of her pincer-tipped legs. —  Witch Star.htm
• The slow progress of the southern pincer was disappointing, but we had in fact done much better than our comrades on the northern flank of the salient. —  Panzer Battles
• Nevertheless by 12 September bridgeheads over the Moselle had been secured north and south of Nancy, and orders were given for a pincer attack to bite out the old capital of Lorraine. —  Panzer Battles
• The Soviet aircraft would be subjected to attack from various directions (the "pincer" method) that they could not repel. —  Attack of the Airacobras - Soviet Aces, American P-39s and the Air War Against Germany
• That's what it looked like, with its black gleaming surface and five pincer-like landing gears. —  Asimov's SF, June2006

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