needlenose pliers

1. 1.

   small pliers with long thin jaws for fine work

   Broaderpliers

   plural

Questions about needlenose pliers

What does needlenose pliers mean?

needlenose pliers means "small pliers with long thin jaws for fine work".

Is needlenose pliers a common word?

needlenose pliers 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.