Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who plies a trade.
- noun A variously shaped hand tool having a pair of pivoted jaws, used for holding, bending, or cutting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which plies.
- noun plural In fortification, a kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge, consisting of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
- noun plural Small pincers with long jaws, adapted for handling small articles, and also for bending and shaping wire. See cut under
nipper
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofply ; one who plies.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who plies a trade
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Examples
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LEE: Found in the plier, of course, that's of some significance, but you cannot say the plier is the murder weapon.
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To get the needle nose plier and rip that wire right out of her mouth.
Archive 2009-06-01 Gail 2009
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There are some that are strap wrenches, some that look like big socket wrenches, and some are a specialty plier type.
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To get the needle nose plier and rip that wire right out of her mouth.
Home Dentistry Gail 2009
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Take a plier and bend the tip of the rod to straighten it.
From The Tips Box: Fruit Flies, Keyboard Adjustments, Booze | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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But my tool set for working on the car is a 384 piece box set and not a bag of multi-tools where parts of the screw driver are missing, the plier turns into a sloppy wire-cutter and what not!
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I haf ben pondering 4 menny daze upon deh name uv ur Tywonese soup plier, Mr He si? si?
U must know passwurd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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A little more plier work for details and maybe a touch of razor blade for more definition and we were good to go.
Archive 2008-12-01 Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2008
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A little more plier work for details and maybe a touch of razor blade for more definition and we were good to go.
Meet Guppy ~ From Plushie to Focal Bead Studio Marcy - Marcy Lamberson 2008
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I haf ben pondering 4 menny daze upon deh name uv ur Tywonese soup plier, Mr He si? si?
4 out of 5 dentists recommend - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
john commented on the word plier
As opposed to the tool.
November 8, 2007