Any tool used to pinch or squeeze such as pliers, pincers, tongs, clamp, clip etc. · earwig (dermapteran insect of family Forficulidae) · The claws of some crustaceans used for feeding or defence.
çekim: çoğul qısqaclar · tamlayan qısqacın
köken: From Proto-Turkic *kïsgač,from *kïs- (“to squeeze, to pinch”) + *-gač, equivalent to qıs- (“to squeeze”) + -qac. Cognates with Turkish kıskaç, Karakhanid قِسْغاجْ (qısɣač), Karaim кыскач, Kazakh қысқыш (qysqyş), Tatar кыскыч (qısqıç), Turkmen gysgyç, Uyghur قىسقاچ (qisqach), Uzbek qisqich.
köken: The paper clip's most common design was originally thought to be made by The Gem Manufacturing Company in Britain in the 1870s. More at paper clip.
köken: gem + kapocs, shortened from Gem iratkapocs, a partial calque of English Gem paper clip, where "Gem" was the name of an early manufacturer of paper clips. See also Paper clip § History on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
to sever using a sharp object; to cut, snip, slit, trim, clip, shear, etc. · to intersect
köken: From Proto-Vietic *kac, from Proto-Austroasiatic *kacʔ (“to pluck; to harvest”). Cognate with Muong Bi cách, Pacoh kéiq (“to pick, to pluck”), Ngeq kɛc, Khmer កាច់ (kac, “to break, to snap”), Bahnar kĕch (“to harvest”), Pnar khait (“to pick”), Kensiu kec. Doublet of gặt (“to harvest”) through a prefixed form. Unrelated to Chinese 割 (OC *Cə-kˤat) (SV: cát), although the two are sometimes…