lazy tongs

Sliding the grilled gate like a lazy tongs, The Shadow squeezed through.

In his reach were ledgers on lazy tongs and a rack of clips holding several hundred small account books.

Removal of those sheets revealed an odd-shaped instrument that looked like wooden lazy tongs.

Wire braiding functions on the lazy tongs principle.

The pairs of criss-crossed pieces, the lazy tongs, are connected together so that pushing at one end can make the whole assembly stretch out.

Quinqual's arms sped out like lazy tongs.

I would make his neck stretch like an ostrich and his arms extend like lazy tongs.

The magic wheel consists of two sets of lazy tongs, which are connected to form a pair of closed, concentric circles.

Invented by Mohsen Shahinpoor, the device is based on "lazy tongs," which are most easily visualized in Saturday morning cartoons.

The pilot gave a high sign to the cadet manning the hangar pocket; the scooter and its launching cradle swung out of the pocket, pushed by power-driven lazy tongs.