[1560–70; ply2 + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1560–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bulb, cylinder, ritual, sector, vertex-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'plier' in a sentence
plier
There was something about a pair of pliers, a screwdriver or something.