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forceps

In medicine, twin-bladed metal instruments that are used to seize and hold objects firmly in surgical, obstetric, and dental procedures.



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Some day, when I meet a dentist with a pair of forceps, I'm going to have it pulled.
He examined it carefully, and then, nimbly whipping out a pair of small forceps from his case, he drew out some minute particle which he carefully sealed up in a tiny envelope.
James's celebrated "dawg" Forceps, indeed) scarcely breathing from excitement, listening motionless on three legs, to the faint squeaking of the rats below.
 
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