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Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) To plait.

Necessitous :: Necessitous (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances..

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..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (n.) A pinching miser; a niggard.

Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

Nip :: Nip (v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon..

Clam :: Clam (v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.

Pincers :: Pincers (n. pl.) See Pinchers.

Pinching :: Pinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinc.

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..

Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him..

Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..

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

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..

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

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

Bepinch :: Bepinch (v. t.) To pinch, or mark with pinches..

Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry..

Belly-pinched :: Belly-pinched (a.) Pinched with hunger; starved.

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