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Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..

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..

Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..

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

Nip :: Nip (n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.

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

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

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..

Gripe :: Gripe (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances..

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..

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..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4..

Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

Hunger-bitten :: Hunger-bitten (a.) Pinched or weakened by hunger.

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

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

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..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

Pinched :: Pinched (imp. & p. p.) of Pinc.

Pelter :: Pelter (n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint..

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