Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Iron tongs of light and ornamental design, used by a smoker to take a coal from the hearth to light his pipe. It is a form of lazy-tongs.
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(often of gold or silver) in the form of tobacco-box, tobacco-tongs -- wherewith to lift a live coal to light his pipe, ladle
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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