a (pair of) scissors / pincers or claws as found on a crab, lobster, or other arthropod / a punch as used to make a hole in a piece of paper

pincers, nippers, pliers, tongs, or grippers, specifically those used to hold a metal object being worked in blacksmithing

(rare) pincers, nippers, pliers, tongs, or grippers, more specifically those used to hold a metal object being worked in blacksmithing

pincers, scissors, tongs

to cut, to slice, to carve / cut down, fell, chop down / prune, trim, shear / cut flat things such as cloth or paper / cut a person with a sword, cut down, kill

finish, be through / perform an action thoroughly or decisively

Tang dynasty / China, Chinese, Sino- / foreign / baseless, bogus / abrupt, sudden

foreign lands in general

the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE) / the 後唐 (Kōtō, “Later Tang”) (923-937 CE) / the 南唐 (Nantō, “Southern Tang”) (937–976 CE) / (dated) China in general

element in compounds, referring to things imported from China or from other foreign lands