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Fire tongs   /fˈaɪər tɑŋz/   Listen
Fire tongs

noun
1.
Tongs for taking hold of burning coals.  Synonym: coal tongs.






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"Fire tongs" Quotes from Famous Books



... hurt it, and in its terror fluttered up into the milk pan, so that the milk spurted down into the room. The woman clasped her hands, at which the Duckling flew down into the butter tub, and then into the meal barrel and out again. How it looked then! The woman screamed, and struck at it with the fire tongs; the children tumbled over one another in their efforts to catch the Duckling; and they laughed and they screamed!-well it was that the door stood open, and the poor creature was able to slip out between the shrubs into the newly fallen snow-there ...
— The Junior Classics, Volume 1 • Willam Patten



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