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the precision pliers that turn your trembling hand into a surgeon's, one stubborn hair at a time
means a small pincer-like tool with two arms you squeeze together to grip, pluck, or extract tiny things like hairs, splinters, or fiddly components
from From 'tweeze,' a back-formation from 'tweezes,' itself an alteration of 'etweese' — the plural of 'etwee,' an 18th-century English borrowing of French 'étui,' a small case for holding tiny implements (needles, toothpicks, little blades). So the name traveled inward: first the case, then the things in it, then specifically the pinching tool, with the French 'étui' ultimately tracing back to a verb meaning 'to keep' or 'protect.'
- ancient tool
- Egyptians used bronze tweezers over 3,000 years ago
- space gear
- Surgeons use tweezer-like forceps in microsurgery on nerves
- splinter slayer
- Fine-tipped versions remove ticks and glass shards
- name origin
- From French etui, a case for small instruments
- lab essential
- Anti-magnetic tweezers handle delicate electronics and watch parts
tweezerman stainless steel — founded 1980, became the #1 selling tweezers brand in us drugstores
rubis swiss tweezers — made in switzerland since 1950, precision instrument used by surgeons and jewelers