tweezers
n. plural-onlyn. a small tool with two thin metal arms that you squeeze together to pick up tiny objects. You use them for things like plucking eyebrows or picking up splinters.
n. a small, handheld instrument consisting of two thin, parallel metal arms joined at one end by a pivot. Used for grasping or manipulating small objects with precision.
She used a pair of tweezers to remove the splinter from her finger.
The technician used fine-tipped tweezers to place the tiny electronic components onto the circuit board.
In the absence of a magnifying glass, the jeweler relied on a pair of fine-pointed tweezers to extract the diamond from its setting without damaging the surrounding metal.
17th century (1645–55): plural of tweeser (on the model of nippers, pincers, pliers or scissors), from obsolete tweese (“case for small instruments”) (or alternatively, alteration of plural form tweeses), aphetic form of earlier etweese (plural of etwee), from French étuis, plural of étui (“case, box, cover”) (from Old French estui (“container, prison”, noun), derivative of étuier (earlier spelling, estuier (“to shut up, guard, keep, preserve, save, enclose, place in a cover”), probably from Vulgar Latin estudiāre (“to keep, treat with care”) or studiāre, from Latin studēre (“to care about”).