(n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
(n. pl.) A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.
(n. pl.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I meet Jean-Pierre (who is 63) and Luc (a mere nipper at 60) in a hotel in Paris, it is a few weeks before this year’s festival, where their latest picture, Two Days, One Night , will compete – though ultimately fail – to win a record-breaking third.
(2) According to Indigenous belief, Mick Rhatigan, a former policeman and linesman, and his two Aboriginal workers, Joe Wynn and Nipper, attacked the camp of another black man, Hopples, and shot dead eight occupants.
(3) Francis Barraud painted Nipper in 1898, and sold the painting and the rights to the Gramophone Company two years later for £100.
(4) According to this version, Wynn and Nipper attacked, using Rhatigan’s guns and horses, but without his knowledge.
(5) When prime minister Tony Blair refused to go on the programme, Liddle archly pointed out that the programme, despite 40 requests, had interviewed Tony Blair as often as "we've interviewed Osama bin Laden, Lord Lucan, and Nipper the skateboarding duck".
(6) The advertising strapline we created which sat alongside the iconic image of "Nipper" listening to the gramophone was "Top Dog for Music" and that's exactly what HMV was with record companies kowtowing to this all-powerful retailer, offering up millions of their own money to contribute to HMV's "co-operative" advertising.
(7) Rhatigan was released because he was found not to be involved, while an initial murder charge against Nipper was dropped when Aboriginal witnesses disappeared.
(8) Armchair executives may well say that HMV should have come up with a decent digital strategy earlier (these days, Nipper the dog would not be perched by a gramophone but plugged into an i-Something via a pair of white earbuds).
(9) The 90-year-old retailer, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, has been hammered by the recession as well as online and supermarket competition.
(10) As the reaction to HMV's demise has shown, the brand, famous for its Nipper the dog trademark, still holds a cachet for many people.
(11) "It really is the end of an era," said Leonard "Nipper" Read, the Scotland Yard detective who successfully pursued the robbers.
(12) Bruce Reynolds often pondered on this and would remark how “Nipper” Read, the dogged detective who tracked down the Great Train Robbers, told them he reckoned they would have done it even if they had known they were going to get caught.
(13) On the other hand, as "Nipper" Read [the detective who was part of the team that investigated the robbery] said about us, perhaps they would have carried it out even if they had known that they would get caught.
(14) And if one of your nippers was his pupil, I think you would feel the same.
(15) It was taken advantage of this situation to remove the larvae with a pair of nippers.
(16) And he referred to Nipper Read's reflection that, perhaps, the Great Train Robbers would have carried out the robbery even if they had known that they were going to get caught.
(17) Part of that, even now, is down to the charm of that iconic logo, Nipper the dog listening intently to the gramophone, which inspired the His Master's Voice name back when Victoria was on the throne.
(18) Newly-erupted human third molars were fractured buccolingually with heavy-gauge industrial nippers or sectioned mesiodistally with a Leitz saw microtome and fixed in glutaraldehyde.
(19) 2.19pm BST Before Prince George was born, my colleague Josh Halliday wandered around London asking people if they recognised royal babies of the past and what they felt the new nipper should be called.
(20) Nipper, the mascot dog who has looked quizzically down the gramophone trumpet in store windows for more than 90 years, will no longer hear His Master's Voice.
Pincers
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Pinchers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers.
(2) The worrying consequence is that the operating companies may find themselves the victims of an uncomfortable pincer movement.
(3) The hypophysis was ablated by catching its rostral end with a pincer.
(4) This was consistently shown in all modalities of assessments which included patients' assessments (P < 0.001) and investigator's assessments (P < 0.001) of the percentage change in nodule size, and gross measurements of nodule volumes using a pincer (P < 0.001).
(5) To our knowledge, this is the first report of a method of stretching the interdigital skin of syndactyly by means of a pincer.
(6) Opposition factions north of Aleppo have been increasingly stuck “between the pincers” of YPG forces on one side and pro-government fighters on the other, a military source said.
(7) "News Corp always worked a double pincer, offering fear and favour.
(8) In two patients with total loss of all digits, pincer pinch was restored by the transfer of two separate toes, one to each side of the stump.
(9) Murphy said Scotland could be “caught in a pincer movement between the leader of the SNP and new leader of the Tory party”.
(10) In the heat of battle, Turkish troops and Kurdish fighters turn on one another, fighting their age-old war, though both are supposed to be fighting a common enemy, Islamic State (Isis), advancing on the battered, tortured civilians of Aleppo and other Syrian and Kurdish communities in a murderous pincer movement.
(11) With GCSE English, we're still at the draft stage, but we can already see that there is a pincer movement going on.
(12) Nine patients who had suffered mutilating injuries of the hand with preservation of only one digit and loss of the others at metacarpal level have been treated by transfer of the second toe onto a metacarpal stump to restore pincer grip.
(13) The use of titanium alloys is recommended for making bone-joining members, retracting medical instruments, of the spatula and speculum types, some kinds of non-magnetic pincers and ultrasonic medical instruments.
(14) PINCERS may also be used to assist in planning the synthesis of mixed-probe DNA sequences for cross-hybridization experiments.
(15) Scores of reporters have been killed – often tortured and decapitated – in what is now seen as a pincer-movement against their work by drug cartels and the state.
(16) The greater the extent of pyramidal tract destruction, the longer the time necessary for recovery of both discrete finger movement and pincer grasp, the greater the effort needed to attain recovery of hand function, and the weaker the affected musculature.
(17) Dentin thickness was measured using a pincer caliper.
(18) In the inflammatory mycoses the author recommends an oral treatment consisting in griseofulvin, and, in case of severe inflammation, prednisone per os at the same time with a local treatment (painting with alcohol iodate 1%, followed by the application of a cream with cortisone associated with an antimicrobial antibiotic and pincer epilation).
(19) A goalless first half had been a triumph, not as it turned out, for Argentina’s golden flea, but for Queiroz’s pincer-like squeeze.
(20) A problem needing investigation is the principle of cardiomyoplasty (CMP) itself, as the muscle acts more as a lift than as pincers.