pump-type pliers

1. 1.

   a type of pliers

   Broaderpliers

   plural

Questions about pump-type pliers

What does pump-type pliers mean?

pump-type pliers means "a type of pliers".

Is pump-type pliers a common word?

pump-type 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.