coal tongs

1. 1.

   tongs for taking hold of burning coals

   Synonymsfire tongs

   Broadertongsfire iron

   plural

Questions about coal tongs

What does coal tongs mean?

coal tongs means "tongs for taking hold of burning coals".

What is another word for coal tongs?

Close synonyms include fire tongs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coal tongs a common word?

coal 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.