fire tongs

1. 1.

   tongs for taking hold of burning coals

   Synonymscoal tongs

   Broadertongsfire iron

   plural

Questions about fire tongs

What does fire tongs mean?

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

What is another word for fire tongs?

Close synonyms include coal 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 fire tongs a common word?

fire 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.