What's the difference between pilcher and pincher?
Pilcher
Definition:
(n.) A scabbard, as of a sword.
(n.) The pilchard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Susan Pilcher asks: Hi Kevin Is there a film or play that you would now like to re-visit that you played in earlier in your career, be it in the same or another role, now that you have greater wealth of experience and knowledge?
Pincher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, pinches.
Example Sentences:
(1) The instrument is designed based on electromagnetic theory and principle of equilibrium in mechanics and composed of a timer, a current regulator and meter, control circuits and two-arm pinchers.
(2) The spicules of the male had a highly sculptured surface with a pincher-like terminal end.
(3) The most striking features in the production of the "pincher mechanism" of the duodenum were found to be a short aortomesenteric distance together with sagittal parallelism between aorta and superior mesenteric artery.
(4) Similar 'selectivity' could be demonstrated for both mu- and kappa-ligands when the weaker and stronger responses were of the same modality, being applied by the same pincher device but with alternating applied force.
(5) Complications included 2 hematomas of the tubal wall, caused by the pinchers but controlled with the ring and 1 later case of cellulitis at the incision.
(6) Penny-pincher-in-chief Francis Maude would have the whole of Whitehall working this way.
(7) PMQs verdict: Jeremy Corbyn's leaked texts give him the upper hand Read more Over recent years I have admired David Hodge’s fearless crescendo of complaint against his own government, with caustic comments on his Surrey MPs, a gallery of gleeful penny-pinchers.
(8) They have also funded several UK MPs on all expenses paid trips to Azerbaijan including Mark Field, Gerry Sutcliffe, Stephen Hammond and the speaker at next week's jazz reception – Christopher Pincher.
(9) December 5, 2013 Christopher Pincher (@ChrisPincher) Very heavy winds in Tamworth, Shenstone & other local villages this pm.
(10) A kind of noval digital and electromagnetically controlled pinchers is developed from its original type for more quantitatively pinching the spinal cord.