Plier

noun

1. One who plies a trade.
2. A variously shaped hand tool having a pair of pivoted jaws, used for holding, bending, or cutting.
3. One who or that which plies.
4. plural In fortification, a kind of balance used in raising and letting down a drawbridge, consisting of timbers joined in the form of a St. Andrew's cross.
5. plural Small pincers with long jaws, adapted for handling small articles, and also for bending and shaping wire. See cut under nipper