tong
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2.4
- noun
- /tɔŋ/
:
pinza
- And use the asparagus tongs, darling.
- use tongs
- oyster tongs
It's it's definitely more like full than my curling tongs would give me.
- It's it's definitely more like full than my curling tongs would give me.
Examples
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The shop was full of precisely arranged hammers, tongs, tweezers, anvils, and other equipment.
Fiction book (1994) -
Colonists gathered oysters from the beds by hand and with tongs and primitive dredges towed from sloops.
Academic text (1990) -
Should I get out some tongs?
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Can you show me how to use those things, the salad tongs?
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Aldrin was using a set of tongs to pick up larger pieces.
Fiction book (1992) -
If I had a pair of tongs... I'd reach in there and pull out that slug.
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Donnato slides the Tupperware bowl and the pair of black salad tongs into a shopping bag.
Fiction book (1994) -
Some hard clams were gathered with tongs and short-handle rakes, and in summer, by barefoot treaders.
Academic text (1990) -
I've got a paintbrush to wipe soil off of our potting table, little tongs to get my seedlings out of the seed trays, that sort of thing.
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Use the tongs to grip the hot peppers from the grill.
Synonyms
1
2.2
A tool with two long handles joined at one end for holding and lifting hot or delicate things
1
1.0
A tool with two arms that you use to pick up hot or small things
1
5.6
A tool with two long arms used to hold and lift blocks of ice
A metal tool with two arms used to pick up and move hot coals in a fire
A tool with two long arms for picking up hot coals in a fireplace
A tool with two joined arms used to hold or pull things
A tool with a chain and handle that grips and turns large pipes
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Etymology
Tong for a tool comes from an old English word tang meaning 'a prong' or 'a tool that holds', and it is the same idea as the familiar kitchen word tongs, which are two arms that grip things. So a tong is a tool used to pick up or hold objects.