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Tongs are the things that allow a blacksmith to handle hot metal without burning HIS tongs! For cold metal work, pliers are used A set, or pair, of Tongs consist of two mirror-image pieces, riveted at the fulcrum, or pivot The handles are referred to as reins and the business ends as bits (also jaws) (As in bridle terms ) While a blacksmith will generally only use 2 or 3 sets of tongs on a day-to-day basis, he may also have 50 others that he made just for specialty tasks Starting out, you'll use a ready-made set of tongs But over time, you will either make your own tongs or customize others to fit your needs and your hands

{i} two-piece hinged implement for grasping

any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks below

An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; often called a pair of tongs

A method in order to care for your personal hygiene when your movements are limited Named after the instrument used in implementation

Tongs are a tool that you use to grip and pick up objects that you do not want to touch. They consist of two long narrow pieces of metal joined together at one end. hammer and tongs: see hammer. pl.n. A grasping device consisting of two arms that are joined, often at one end, as by a pivot or a scissorlike hinge

An instrument or tool used for picking things up without touching them with the hands or fingers, consisting of two slats or grips hinged at the end or in the middle, and sometimes including a spring to open the grips

Pair of curved arms that pivot like scissors so that a pull on the ring connecting the shorter segments will cause the points on the longer segments to bite into the log The tongs are activated by the pull on the loading line

curling tongs

Tongs, usually electrically heated, used for curling or waving the hair

fire tongs

Tongs used for gripping and moving burning coals and logs in a fire. Part of a set of fire irons

hammer and tongs

With tools indicating seriousness of intent and capability of harm

When they had an argument they went at it hammer and tongs.

pipe tongs

plural form of pipe tong

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An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands

these attributes are concrete expressions of God's care and providence and therefore not man-made. This explains the quite bizarre presence of a ‘pair’ of tongs in some lists: in order to make a tong one needs a tong, and how could the first tong be made without a tong?.

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A Chinese secret society or gang

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To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs

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To use tongs

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{n} the catch or fastening of a buckle

chain tongs

a pipe wrench used for turning large pipes; an adjustable chain circles the pipe with its ends connected to the head whose teeth engage the pipe

coal tongs

tongs for gripping burning coals

curling tongs

curling iron, electric appliance for curling hair

fire tongs

{i} tongs for gripping burning coals

fire tongs

tongs for taking hold of burning coals

hammer and tongs

With tremendous energy or effort; vigorously: worked hammer and tongs to meet the deadline

ice tongs

tongs for lifting blocks of ice

lazy tongs

Tongs having a jointed extensible framework operated by scissorslike handles, used for grasping an object at a distance

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{i} two-piece hinged implement for grasping, pincers, pliers, forceps

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ue and Fork: A type of joint in which one timber has the shape of a two prong fork and the other a central tongue that fits between the prongs

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To seize, hold, or manipulate with tongs

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In China, an association, secret society, or organization of any kind; in the United States, usually, a secret association of Chinese such as that of the highbinders

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