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Pinchingly :: Pinchingly (adv.) In a pinching way.

Mullet :: Mullet (n.) Small pinchers for curling the hair.

Tweague :: Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.

Forceps :: Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc..

Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains..

Chelicera :: Chelicera (n.) One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects..

Pliers :: Pliers (n. pl.) A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc..

Chela :: Chela (n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..

Pincher :: Pincher (n.) One who, or that which, pinches..

Pinch :: Pinch (n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

Twinge :: Twinge (n.) A pinch; a tweak; a twitch.

Pinchpenny :: Pinchpenny (n.) A miserly person.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches..

Pinch :: Pinch (n.) Pian; pang.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Gaunt :: Gaunt (a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim..

Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

Nipping :: Nipping (a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind..

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