ice-tongs

A heavy pair of tongs, like ice-tongs, is attached to one end, and the log is snaked out by horses to the skidway.

Handwork in Wood William Noyes

The Injun had pretty well wore himself out by this time, and when he felt those ice-tongs he just stiffened out -- an Injun's dead game that-away; he won't make a holler when you hurt him.

Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Also he wore di'mon's fit to handle with ice-tongs.

The Spoilers Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

I feel as if I'd been squeezed by a pair of ice-tongs.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

We had two pairs of ice-tongs, and we would put on our rubber boots, and take the tongs, and go out into the snow, and fasten to a log -- one at each end -- and drag it across Captain Ben's iron door-sill, and lift it in and swing it across the stout andirons with a skill that improved with each day's practice.

Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

We built a new ice-house near the east barn in November; and in December the old Squire drove to Portland and brought home a complete kit of tools -- three ice-saws, an ice-plow or groover, ice-tongs, hooks, chisels, tackle and block.

A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

Addison and I then set to work with two of our new ice-saws, and hauled out the cakes with the ice-tongs, while

A Busy Year at the Old Squire's 1887

After getting you back till your spine interferes with the chair itself, he shoves your head into a pair of ice-tongs, and dashes at the camera again.

They All Do It; or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and his Neighbors Being a Faithful Record of What Befell the Miggses on Several Important Occasions ... 1877

_ "I said again, with the flute turning into a pair of ice-tongs that clamped into the corners of my heart.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912