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Wiktionary

  1. piercernoun

    An instrument that pierces or perforates

  2. piercernoun

    A person who pierces, especially one who carries out body piercing

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Piercernoun

    Etymology: from pierce.

    Cart, ladder and wimble, with perser and pod. Thomas Tusser.

    The hollow instrument, terebra, we may english piercer, wherewith many flies are provided, proceeding from the womb, with which they perforate the tegument of leaves, and through the hollow of it inject their eggs into the holes they have made. John Ray, on the Creation.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Piercernoun

    one who, or that which, pierces or perforates

  2. Piercernoun

    an instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto

  3. Piercernoun

    a piercel

  4. Piercernoun

    the ovipositor, or sting, of an insect

  5. Piercernoun

    an insect provided with an ovipositor

Wikidata

  1. Piercer

    In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, the piercer is a vermin. It resembles almost exactly a stalactite, only with eyes in the sides. The Piercer is actually a giant gastropod of which the pointy, stalactite-esque part is its shell. Its tail and other such parts can almost never be seen. Its color ranges from brown, to black, to grey, to green, to blue.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. piercer

    Used by sail-makers to form eyelet-holes.

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer

  1. piercer

    See Ordnance, Construction of, Boring and Turning.

Anagrams for piercer »

  1. crêpier

  2. reprice

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of piercer in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of piercer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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