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- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 27 Tongs 18773801911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 27 — Tongs TONGS (O. Eng. tange, M. Eng. tonge, cf. Du. tang...231 bytes (227 words) - 17:33, 21 August 2020
- Sugar-Tongs 4205064Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets — The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-TongsEdward Lear THE NUTCRACKERS AND THE SUGAR-TONGS....455 bytes (475 words) - 17:21, 29 April 2023
- the Poker, and the Tongs 4205138Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets — The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker, and the TongsEdward Lear THE BROOM...507 bytes (359 words) - 20:17, 29 April 2023
- feminine, ‘tongs, barnacles, splinter,’ Old High German kluppa, feminine, ‘tongs.’ Kluppe, like Modern High German Kluft (dialectic) ‘tongs,’ is also derived...547 bytes (79 words) - 15:37, 13 September 2023
- German kluft, feminine, ‘cleft, chasm, cave, vault, tongs,’ Old High German chluft, feminine, ‘tongs, shears,’ properly ‘splitting’ (as a verbal abstract...539 bytes (118 words) - 15:37, 13 September 2023
- ’ from MidHG. kluppe, f., ‘tongs, barnacles, splinter,’ OHG. kluppa, f., ‘tongs.’ Kluppe, like ModHG. Kluft (dial.) ‘tongs,’ is also derived from OTeut...570 bytes (73 words) - 07:28, 30 June 2018
- ‘chasm,’ from MidHG. kluft, f., ‘cleft, chasm, cave, vault, tongs,’ OHG. chluft, f., ‘tongs, shears,’ prop. ‘splitting’ (as a verbal abstract of the OTeut...564 bytes (111 words) - 15:13, 6 July 2018
- Language, Z — ZangeJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge Zange, feminine, ‘tongs, pincers,’ from the equivalent Middle High German zange, Old High German...543 bytes (105 words) - 12:47, 13 September 2023
- sees a pair of tongs. He remembers. Dadi doesn’t have one. Her hands get singed when she bakes chapatis. If he bought a pair of tongs she would be very...29 KB (5,290 words) - 22:18, 3 January 2020
- מתעביד בצ׳ צ׳) our tongs are made with the help of tongs; who made the first tongs? There- fore the first tongs must have been a...156 bytes (1,098 words) - 10:46, 8 April 2021
- Davis Zange, f., ‘tongs, pincers,’ from the equiv. MidHG. zange, OHG. zanga, f.; corresponding to Du. tang, AS. tǫnge, E. tongs, and the equiv. OIc...566 bytes (96 words) - 06:22, 28 June 2018
- the men who deliver ice at your door. Here you see various forms of ice tongs, ice shavers, files and stones for sharpening the tools, ice axes and ice...296 bytes (414 words) - 01:58, 17 January 2022
- The Rag Doll The Broom Handle Hammer and Nails The Hot Cookie Pan The Ice Tongs The Coal Bucket The Bushel Basket Jack Knife Kindling Wood Splinters Shush...345 bytes (79 words) - 13:11, 19 January 2020
- writing on or for divination. 頰4 The side of the face; jaw. 鋏4 Nippers or tongs used by smelters; a kind of sword. 愜4 Joyful; happy; prosperous. 篋4 A...318 bytes (93 words) - 23:01, 20 September 2020
- FIRE-IRONS, the implements for tending a fire. Usually they consist of poker, tongs and shovel, and they are most frequently of iron, steel, or brass, or partly...331 bytes (104 words) - 03:16, 7 February 2022
- Keltic words; Old Irish gabul, ‘fork,’ gabhla, ‘shears,’ Welsh gebel, ‘tongs,’ Latin gabalus ‘(gable-shaped) gallows’; to these also Old Indian gábhasti...543 bytes (186 words) - 16:35, 13 September 2023
- seized the fire tongs. The cat's wail had roused Hotchkiss, who was wide-awake at once. He took in my offensive attitude, the tongs, the direction of...307 bytes (2,548 words) - 03:26, 10 December 2016
- KʽiamJosiah Goddard 箝-1 To lock; shut and fasten; a lock; nippers. 鉗-1 Tongs; pincers; forceps; to pinch; gripe; injure. 緘-1 To bind with cords; close...317 bytes (106 words) - 23:01, 20 September 2020
- to’ (OHG. and MidHG. zwangen, zwęngen, ‘to pinch’; comp. MidHG. zwange, ‘tongs’); see also zwingen. A Teut. root þwenh (Aryan twenk) is implied by OHG...567 bytes (121 words) - 06:40, 28 June 2018
- 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...284 bytes (176 words) - 06:47, 11 September 2016