[f. TWEEZERS: cf. prec. 2.] intr. To use tweezers; trans. to pull out with tweezers; also to pinch or pluck with or as with tweezers. Hence Tweezering vbl. sb.
1806. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem. (1843), II. 146. There is less micrology, less tweezering at trifles, in his erudition.
1848. in Q. Rev., March, 446. A hero … who when he has ‘tweezered out the slender blossom of manhood that lives on his lip and cheek,’ passes well for a tall young lady.
1911. Blackw. Mag., July, 48/2. If he halted he was tweezered into activity again.
