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  • noun Plural form of piercer.

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Examples

  • Lace stitches, made with bodkins or "piercers," or darning needles of sufficient size to make perforations, were skillfully rimmed and joined together in patterns by finer stitches, and open borders, and hemstitching, and dainty inventions of all kinds, for the embellishment of the fabrics upon which they were wrought.

    The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

  • The abuse of one does not just stop with one, its shrapnel scatters and piercers, and affects and harms their families, friends, co-workers, and society and on and on.

    Kim Michele Richardson: An Abuse Survivor's Message for the Vatican: Apologies and Accountability Are Due Kim Michele Richardson 2010

  • The abuse of one does not just stop with one, its shrapnel scatters and piercers, and affects and harms their families, friends, co-workers, and society and on and on.

    Kim Michele Richardson: An Abuse Survivor's Message for the Vatican: Apologies and Accountability Are Due 2010

  • The abuse of one does not just stop with one, its shrapnel scatters and piercers, and affects and harms their families, friends, co-workers, and society and on and on.

    Kim Michele Richardson: An Abuse Survivor's Message for the Vatican: Apologies and Accountability Are Due 2010

  • The Shaolin martial artist nearly severed the ballistics gel dummy with his wushu hooks and popped the eyes out of the dummy's head with his emei piercers a pen-sized steel spike connected to a ring that allows concealment and quick use, as well as spinning for distraction.

    Television 2009

  • The Shaolin martial artist nearly severed the ballistics gel dummy with his wushu hooks and popped the eyes out of the dummy's head with his emei piercers a pen-sized steel spike connected to a ring that allows concealment and quick use, as well as spinning for distraction.

    May 2009 2009

  • The Rafaee Chowk is the meeting point of all Rafaees or body piercers, they hang around here, and here is the Dhuni the Holy Fire on which Butter Sufi tea and food for the community kitchen is made .

    Rafaee Chowk Haji Malang « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • The Rafaee Chowk is the meeting point of all Rafaees or body piercers, they hang around here, and here is the Dhuni the Holy Fire on which Butter Sufi tea and food for the community kitchen is made .

    2008 February 26 « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • Metal mohawks, according to APP's Michaela Grey, "" tread a legal line just when piercers are striving for legitimacy. ''

    Don't Try This At Home 2008

  • She wants me to come back in a month so she can take pics for her portfolio. * giggle* I so know it's not that big a deal but I'm so going to claim I'm a piercers model now. heheheheh

    madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2006

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