Etymology

pincer

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Today it means: Any object that resembles one half of a pair of pincers. Full definition →

Middle English pynsor ← Old French pinceure
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The story

  1. Old French · derived frompinceure
  2. Middle English · inherited frompynsor
  3. English todaypincer

From Middle English pynsor, from Old French pinceure, pinchure, from pincier (“to pinch”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchpinceure all →

pincers

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.