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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To handle or extract with tweezers.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A surgeons' case of instruments.
  • noun plural Same as tweezers, 1.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To use tweezers to pluck something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb pluck with tweezers

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Back-formation from tweezers.]

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