Definition of pinch

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Pinch (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip..

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Chela :: Chela (n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.
Gripe :: Gripe (v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe..
Pincher :: Pincher (n.) One who, or that which, pinches..
Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does..
Pinching :: Pinching (a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony..
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..
Pinchcock :: Pinchcock (n.) A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
Mullet :: Mullet (n.) Small pinchers for curling the hair.
Scrimp :: Scrimp (n.) A pinching miser; a niggard.
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..
Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches..
Tweak :: Tweak (v. t.) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose..
Belly-pinched :: Belly-pinched (a.) Pinched with hunger; starved.
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..
Hungered :: Hungered (a.) Hungry; pinched for food.
Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4..
Pinchem :: Pinchem (n.) The European blue titmouse.
Nip :: Nip (v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip..
Ahungered :: Ahungered (a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
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..
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