chain tongs

1. 1.

   a pipe wrench used for turning large pipes; an adjustable chain circles the pipe with its ends connected to the head whose teeth engage the pipe

   Broaderpipe wrench

   Narrowerchain wrench

   Partschain

   plural

Questions about chain tongs

What does chain tongs mean?

chain tongs means "a pipe wrench used for turning large pipes; an adjustable chain circles the pipe with its ends connected to the head whose teeth engage the pipe".

Is chain tongs a common word?

chain tongs is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.