Ice Tongs

A heavy pair of tongs, like ice-tongs, is attached to one end, and the log is snaked out by horses to the skidway. ❋ William Noyes (N/A)

The Injun had pretty well wore himself out by this time, and when he felt those ice-tongs he just stiffened out -- an Injun's dead game that-away; he won't make a holler when you hurt him. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

Also he wore di'mon's fit to handle with ice-tongs. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)

I feel as if I'd been squeezed by a pair of ice-tongs. ❋ Sewell Ford (1907)

We had two pairs of ice-tongs, and we would put on our rubber boots, and take the tongs, and go out into the snow, and fasten to a log -- one at each end -- and drag it across Captain Ben's iron door-sill, and lift it in and swing it across the stout andirons with a skill that improved with each day's practice. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)

We built a new ice-house near the east barn in November; and in December the old Squire drove to Portland and brought home a complete kit of tools -- three ice-saws, an ice-plow or groover, ice-tongs, hooks, chisels, tackle and block. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Addison and I then set to work with two of our new ice-saws, and hauled out the cakes with the ice-tongs, while ❋ Unknown (1887)

After getting you back till your spine interferes with the chair itself, he shoves your head into a pair of ice-tongs, and dashes at the camera again. ❋ Unknown (1877)

_ "I said again, with the flute turning into a pair of ice-tongs that clamped into the corners of my heart. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)