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Toenails can easily be cut with nail tongs. As with the pocket nail-clippers, the jaws are sharp. The legs are crossed and sometimes a spring on one of the legs ensures that the tongs open automatically. [MOT]

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The nose twitch consists of a wooden stick - sometimes made of plastic - of about 50 cm with a hole at one end through which a loop of rope (exceptionally a chain) protrudes. The tool is used as a means of coercion to divert the attention of a horse during disturbing (eg eye care) or painful procedures and to induce a calming and sedative effect (cf. humane twitch). With the left hand, the loop is brought over the upper lip of the animal, with the right, the loop is tightened. The same implement is used on cattle, but on an ear (1). [MOT] (1) BERTHELON: 13.

Nuts can be tightened or loosened with nut pliers. The jaws are adapted to the shape of the nut. They grab the nut on four of the six faces. Unlike wrenches, the jaws don't move parallel. Sometimes they are ribbed on the inside for a better grip and the opening can be fixed with a set screw. The pliers cannot then be closed further than the screw allows, so that excessive pressure cannot be exerted on the side surfaces of the nut and thereby damage them. See also combination pliers. [MOT]