Definition of pinch

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Pinch (v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does..

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Bepinch :: Bepinch (v. t.) To pinch, or mark with pinches..
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..
Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing..
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..
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..
Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..
Pinching :: Pinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinc.
Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
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..
Bepinched :: Bepinched (imp. & p. p.) of Bepinc.
Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
Nip :: Nip (n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Tweezers :: Tweezers (n. pl.) Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes..
Ahungered :: Ahungered (a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains..
Pincers :: Pincers (n. pl.) See Pinchers.
Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
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..
Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him..
Nipping :: Nipping (a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind..
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