Definition of pinch

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

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Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
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..
Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.
Tweague :: Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.
Pincers :: Pincers (n. pl.) See Pinchers.
Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies..
Bepinched :: Bepinched (imp. & p. p.) of Bepinc.
Pinched :: Pinched (imp. & p. p.) of Pinc.
Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4..
Necessitous :: Necessitous (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances..
Hunger-bitten :: Hunger-bitten (a.) Pinched or weakened by hunger.
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..
Gaunt :: Gaunt (a.) Attenuated, as with fasting or suffering; lean; meager; pinched and grim..
Gripe :: Gripe (v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe..
Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does..
Pinchpenny :: Pinchpenny (n.) A miserly person.
Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him..
Pinchcock :: Pinchcock (n.) A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
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