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Using wooden pincers, the preparer picks up each square of gold and places it in the center of each skin.
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Using the pincers, these squares of gold are put into a second packet called the "shoder", which has approximately 1,500 skins.
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They were small, no larger than an ordinary edible crab, with bloated shells and moderately long pincers.
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All species also have very large scorpion-like pedipalps (pincers) but there is an additional large spine on each palpal tibia.
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If attacking pincers link up in the enemy's rear, the enemy is encircled.
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The pincers at the end of each tentacle can also be used to cut and tear into the flesh of his enemies.
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The first four pairs of legs end in pincers, and have a series of spines, called the gnathobase, on the inner surface.
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In many decapods, however, one pair of legs has enlarged pincers; the claws are called chelae, so those legs may be called chelipeds.
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Powers include a beetle shell armed with very strong pincers and spear-like centipede legs.
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Robosnail is a mechanical snail with snapping pincers.
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In crustaceans, carpus is the scientific term for the claws or pincers present on some legs.
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They are "pediform", i.e. they look like small legs and were not modified into pincers.
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Dynamo uses his large pincers to grasp and thrash opponents around, and his six legs make him extremely maneuverable.
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They are probably derived from tongs, pincers, or scissors-like pliers used to grab or hold hot objects since the dawn of recorded history.
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The head is flat and square, with a pair of long, large pincers.
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