Parameter tongs, usually a piece of bamboo about 8-10in. long bent in half and used as kitchen tongs or by a blacksmith in moving coals of fire, kettle lids; crab pincers; to use tongs to get or move something; to carry something under the arm by squeezing it’; to get stuck or caught between something, as one’s finger pinched in a door, lid of a trunk [095b7900684ce854f950ef0326a20bab]