Possible Clues:

• Can't cut through fabricated steel, they feel
• Flexible feelers
• Bits of squid etc the French caught in net cast indiscriminately
• Feeling for the laces under the canvas
• Flexible appendages on some marine creatures
• Cuttlefish's pair
• Camping hotshots maybe securing first of lines which reach a long way?
• Squid appendages
• With these, the octopus takes a grip