Definition of pinch

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

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Bepinch :: Bepinch (v. t.) To pinch, or mark with pinches..
Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..
Scrimp :: Scrimp (n.) A pinching miser; a niggard.
Pincers :: Pincers (n. pl.) See Pinchers.
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..
Hungered :: Hungered (a.) Hungry; pinched for food.
Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
Tweak :: Tweak (v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose..
Pincher :: Pincher (n.) One who, or that which, pinches..
Nip :: Nip (n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice..
Belly-pinched :: Belly-pinched (a.) Pinched with hunger; starved.
Pinch :: Pinch (n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar..
Pinch :: Pinch (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip..
Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..
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..
Ahungered :: Ahungered (a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
Pinch :: Pinch (n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff..
Teetee :: Teetee (n.) Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel..
Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
Outsider :: Outsider (n.) A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside..
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