tongs

• n. [機械]クランプ；プライヤー（トングの複数形）
• v.トングで取る（トングの3単数形）

古英語のtang, tongs, jigから、原語ゲルマン語の*tango, pincer, jigから、PIE *denk, biteから、語源はtang, toughと同じ。

tongs

tongs: [OE] The etymological notion underlying the word tongs is of ‘biting’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *tanguz (source also of German zange, Dutch and Danish tang, and Swedish t?ng), which went back ultimately to the Indo-European base *dank- ‘bite’ (ancestor of Greek dáknein ‘bite’). (Tong ‘Chinese secret society’ [19], incidentally, comes from Cantonese tong ‘assembly hall’.)

tongs (n.)

Old English tange, tang "tongs, pincers, foreceps, instrument for holding and lifting," from Proto-Germanic *tango (cognates: Old Saxon tanga, Old Norse t?ng, Swedish t?ng, Old Frisian tange, Middle Dutch tanghe, Dutch tang, Old High German zanga, German Zange "tongs"), literally "that which bites," from PIE root *denk- "to bite" (cognates: Sanskrit dasati "biter;" Greek daknein "to bite," dax "biting"). For sense evolution, compare French mordache "tongs," from mordre "to bite."

1. a pair of tongs

ひとつかみはさみ

2.She used tongs to put some more coal on the fire.

彼女は火ばさみでもう少し石炭を挟んでストーブに入れた。

3.The waiter lifted rolls from a basket with a pair of silver tongs .

給仕は銀のはさみでかごからパンロールを挟んだ。

4.They yell，shout and argue.For six hours a night they go at it，hammer and tongs .

彼らは叫んだり騒いだりして、毎晩6時間も楽しく騒いでいます。

5.He loved gardening.He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work.

彼は草花に仕えるのが大好きだ。仕事が終わって家に帰ると、彼はいそいそと忙しくなった。