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tongs
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Tongs
(gcide) | Tongs \Tongs\, n. pl. [OE. tonge, tange, AS. tange; akin to D.
tang, G. zanga, OHG. zanga, Don. tang, Sw. t[*a]ng, Icel.
t["o]ng, Gr. da`knein to bite, Skr. da[~n]i[,c], da[,c].
[root]59. Cf. Tang a strong taste, anything projecting.]
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.
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tongs
(wn) | tongs
n 1: any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually
have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks
below [syn: tongs, pair of tongs] |
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tongske kralovstvo
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chain tongs
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coal tongs
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fire tongs
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hammer and tongs
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ice tongs
(encz) | ice tongs, n: |
pair of tongs
(encz) | pair of tongs, n: |
Grappling tongs
(gcide) | Grappling \Grap"pling\, n.
1. A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is
seized and held, a grapnel.
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2. A grapple; a struggle. A match for yards in fight, in
grappling for the bear. --Dryden.
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Grappling iron, a hooked iron used for grappling and
holding fast a vessel or other object.
Grappling tongs, broad-mouthed tongs for gathering oysters.
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Lazy tongs
(gcide) | Lazy \La"zy\, a. [Compar. Lazier; superl. Laziest.] [OE.
lasie, laesic, of uncertain origin; cf. F. las tired, L.
lassus, akin to E. late; or cf. LG. losig, lesig.]
1. Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle;
shirking work. --Bacon.
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2. Inactive; slothful; slow; sluggish; as, a lazy stream.
"The night owl's lazy flight." --Shak.
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3. Wicked; vicious. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --B. Jonson.
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Lazy tongs, a system of jointed bars capable of great
extension, originally made for picking up something at a
distance, now variously applied in machinery.
Syn: Idle; indolent; sluggish; slothful. See Idle.
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pair of tongs
(gcide) | Tongs \Tongs\, n. pl. [OE. tonge, tange, AS. tange; akin to D.
tang, G. zanga, OHG. zanga, Don. tang, Sw. t[*a]ng, Icel.
t["o]ng, Gr. da`knein to bite, Skr. da[~n]i[,c], da[,c].
[root]59. Cf. Tang a strong taste, anything projecting.]
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.
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Pipe tongs
(gcide) | Pipe \Pipe\, n. [AS. p[imac]pe, probably fr. L. pipare, pipire,
to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch,
Fife.]
1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes
of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces
musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an
organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." --Milton.
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Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.
--Shak.
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2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware,
or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water,
steam, gas, etc.
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3. A small bowl with a hollow stem, -- used in smoking
tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances.
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4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the
windpipe, or one of its divisions.
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5. The key or sound of the voice. [R.] --Shak.
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6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird.
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The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.
--Tennyson.
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7. pl. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.
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8. (Mining) An elongated body or vein of ore.
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9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise
called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the
accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put
together like a pipe. --Mozley & W.
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10. (Naut.) A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to
their duties; also, the sound of it.
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11. [Cf. F. pipe, fr. pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L.
pipare to chirp. See Etymol. above.] A cask usually
containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the
quantity which it contains.
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Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes,
as to an engine or a building.
Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve,
etc., used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory
to a pipe.
Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer,
in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown
lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. [Eng.]
Pipe tree (Bot.), the lilac and the mock orange; -- so
called because their were formerly used to make pipe
stems; -- called also pipe privet.
Pipe wrench, or Pipe tongs, a jawed tool for gripping a
pipe, in turning or holding it.
To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in
token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace,
-- a custom of the American Indians.
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Sugar tongs
(gcide) | Sugar \Sug"ar\, n. [OE. sugre, F. sucre (cf. It. zucchero, Sp.
az['u]car), fr. Ar. sukkar, assukkar, fr. Skr. [,c]arkar[=a]
sugar, gravel; cf. Per. shakar. Cf. Saccharine, Sucrose.]
1. A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance,
of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by
crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as
the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It
is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food
and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the
Note below.
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Note: The term sugar includes several commercial grades, as
the white or refined, granulated, loaf or lump, and the
raw brown or muscovado. In a more general sense, it
includes several distinct chemical compounds, as the
glucoses, or grape sugars (including glucose proper,
dextrose, and levulose), and the sucroses, or true
sugars (as cane sugar). All sugars are carbohydrates.
See Carbohydrate. The glucoses, or grape sugars, are
ketone alcohols of the formula C6H12O6, and they turn
the plane of polarization to the right or the left.
They are produced from the amyloses and sucroses, as by
the action of heat and acids of ferments, and are
themselves decomposed by fermentation into alcohol and
carbon dioxide. The only sugar (called acrose) as yet
produced artificially belongs to this class. The
sucroses, or cane sugars, are doubled glucose
anhydrides of the formula C12H22O11. They are usually
not fermentable as such (cf. Sucrose), and they act
on polarized light.
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2. By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or
appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous
white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
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3. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render
acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
[Colloq.]
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Acorn sugar. See Quercite.
Cane sugar, sugar made from the sugar cane; sucrose, or an
isomeric sugar. See Sucrose.
Diabetes sugar, or Diabetic sugar (Med. Chem.), a variety
of sugar (grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine
in diabetes mellitus; -- the presence of such a sugar in
the urine is used to diagnose the illness.
Fruit sugar. See under Fruit, and Fructose.
Grape sugar, a sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose
or glucose) found as a characteristic ingredient of ripe
grapes, and also produced from many other sources. See
Dextrose, and Glucose.
Invert sugar. See under Invert.
Malt sugar, a variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, found
in malt. See Maltose.
Manna sugar, a substance found in manna, resembling, but
distinct from, the sugars. See Mannite.
Milk sugar, a variety of sugar characteristic of fresh
milk, and isomeric with sucrose. See Lactose.
Muscle sugar, a sweet white crystalline substance isomeric
with, and formerly regarded to, the glucoses. It is found
in the tissue of muscle, the heart, liver, etc. Called
also heart sugar. See Inosite.
Pine sugar. See Pinite.
Starch sugar (Com. Chem.), a variety of dextrose made by
the action of heat and acids on starch from corn,
potatoes, etc.; -- called also potato sugar, {corn
sugar}, and, inaccurately, invert sugar. See Dextrose,
and Glucose.
Sugar barek, one who refines sugar.
Sugar beet (Bot.), a variety of beet (Beta vulgaris) with
very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe,
for the sugar obtained from them.
Sugar berry (Bot.), the hackberry.
Sugar bird (Zool.), any one of several species of small
South American singing birds of the genera Coereba,
Dacnis, and allied genera belonging to the family
Coerebidae. They are allied to the honey eaters.
Sugar bush. See Sugar orchard.
Sugar camp, a place in or near a sugar orchard, where maple
sugar is made.
Sugar candian, sugar candy. [Obs.]
Sugar candy, sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized;
candy made from sugar.
Sugar cane (Bot.), a tall perennial grass ({Saccharum
officinarium}), with thick short-jointed stems. It has
been cultivated for ages as the principal source of sugar.
Sugar loaf.
(a) A loaf or mass of refined sugar, usually in the form
of a truncated cone.
(b) A hat shaped like a sugar loaf.
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Why, do not or know you, grannam, and that sugar
loaf? --J. Webster.
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Sugar maple (Bot.), the rock maple (Acer saccharinum).
See Maple.
Sugar mill, a machine for pressing out the juice of the
sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers,
between which the cane is passed.
Sugar mite. (Zool.)
(a) A small mite (Tyroglyphus sacchari), often found in
great numbers in unrefined sugar.
(b) The lepisma.
Sugar of lead. See Sugar, 2, above.
Sugar of milk. See under Milk.
Sugar orchard, a collection of maple trees selected and
preserved for purpose of obtaining sugar from them; --
called also, sometimes, sugar bush. [U.S.] --Bartlett.
Sugar pine (Bot.), an immense coniferous tree ({Pinus
Lambertiana}) of California and Oregon, furnishing a soft
and easily worked timber. The resinous exudation from the
stumps, etc., has a sweetish taste, and has been used as a
substitute for sugar.
Sugar squirrel (Zool.), an Australian flying phalanger
(Belideus sciureus), having a long bushy tail and a
large parachute. It resembles a flying squirrel. See
Illust. under Phlanger.
Sugar tongs, small tongs, as of silver, used at table for
taking lumps of sugar from a sugar bowl.
Sugar tree. (Bot.) See Sugar maple, above.
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Tongs
(gcide) | Tongs \Tongs\, n. pl. [OE. tonge, tange, AS. tange; akin to D.
tang, G. zanga, OHG. zanga, Don. tang, Sw. t[*a]ng, Icel.
t["o]ng, Gr. da`knein to bite, Skr. da[~n]i[,c], da[,c].
[root]59. Cf. Tang a strong taste, anything projecting.]
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.
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Wafer tongs
(gcide) | Wafer \Wa"fer\, n. [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of
Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel,
Sw. v[*a]ffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba,
being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. wabe is
probably akin to E. weave. See Weave, and cf. Waffle,
Gauffer.]
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1. (Cookery) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.
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Wafers piping hot out of the gleed. --Chaucer.
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The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers,
and marchpanes. --Holland.
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A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making --B.
Jonson.
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2. (Eccl.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly
unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with
the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the
Roman Catholic Church.
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3. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin,
isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in
sealing letters and other documents.
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4. Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of
discoidal shape; -- a term used commonly to refer to the
thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the
manufacture of integrated circuits.
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Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake. --Shak.
Wafer irons, or Wafer tongs (Cookery), a pincher-shaped
contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which
wafers are baked.
Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one
employed in amorous intrigues. --Beau. & Fl.
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Weeding tongs
(gcide) | Weeding \Weed"ing\,
a. & n. from Weed, v.
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Weeding chisel, a tool with a divided chisel-like end, for
cutting the roots of large weeds under ground.
Weeding forceps, an instrument for taking up some sorts of
plants in weeding.
Weeding fork, a strong, three-pronged fork, used in
clearing ground of weeds; -- called also weeding iron.
Weeding hook. Same as Weed hook, under 3d Weed.
Weeding iron. See Weeding fork, above.
Weeding tongs. Same as Weeding forceps, above.
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chain tongs
(wn) | chain tongs
n 1: 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
(wn) | coal tongs
n 1: tongs for taking hold of burning coals [syn: fire tongs,
coal tongs] |
fire tongs
(wn) | fire tongs
n 1: tongs for taking hold of burning coals [syn: fire tongs,
coal tongs] |
ice tongs
(wn) | ice tongs
n 1: tongs for lifting blocks of ice |
pair of tongs
(wn) | pair of tongs
n 1: any of various devices for taking hold of objects; usually
have two hinged legs with handles above and pointed hooks
below [syn: tongs, pair of tongs] |
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