alligators is a form of:

Alligator



noun
1.
(an animal of the crocodile family with four short legs, a thick skin, a broad snout, and a long tail, distinguished from crocodile by a broad flat head, depressed muzzle and unequal teeth) សត្វក្រពា
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
2.
A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.
3.
A form of squeezer for the puddle ball
4.
A rock breaker
5.
A kind of job press, called also alligator press.