Definitionn. any of various devices for taking hold of objects
Last update: July 25, 2015
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Use tongs to lift the pan from the stove. [Please select]
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Held between the thumb and fingers of the right hand, they are used as tongs to take up portions of the food, which is brought to table cut up into small and convenient pieces, or as means for sweeping the rice and small particles of food into the mouth from the bowl. [Please select]
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To dream of sugar-tongs, foretells that disagreeable tidings of wrong-doings will be received by you. [Please select]
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Crutchley's tongs and a discarded hair-net, I was able to produce an almost immodest fringe. [Please select]
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And Grannie herself, breaking down, said, "Wouldn't you like the tongs, boy." [Please select]
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Give the boy the tongs, woman, just to say he's at home. [Please select]
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Pete plucked the tongs out of Nancy's hands, and began feeding the fire with the gorse. [Please select]
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"Nancy," in a whisper, "put the tongs over the cradle; it's a pity to tempt the fairies." [Please select]
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“You wouldn’t touch him with a pair of tongs, and I wouldn’t let you,—even with them. [Please select]
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He reached for a pair of tongs, stirred the coals, and threw on a single piece of driftwood. [Please select]
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Weguelin sat on their chairs, and Hortense sat on her bench, tea was brought and a table laid, behind whose whiteness and silver Hortense began slight offices with cups and sugar tongs. [Please select]
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