piercer
- a word derived from pierce.
Example Sentences
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But when the failing company has been a piercer of more than 100 million ears, nobody can stick to courtroom decorum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
He was identified by friends and customers as Gunn’s husband, James Maldonado, a piercer there.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
Judge Amjad Nawaz said the body-modification industry was unregulated and McCarthy was only registered as a tattooist and cosmetic piercer.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2019
A self-described “shaman, artist, master piercer and body modifier,” Mr. Musafar was “an astronaut of inner spaces,” the photographer Charles Gatewood once said, part of a “sub-sub-subculture” that crept into public view in the 1970s.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2018
SOCRATES: And when the piercer uses the awl, whose work will he be using well?
From Cratylus by Jowett, Benjamin
