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

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

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..

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..

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

Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.

Gripe :: Gripe (v. i.) To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe..

Ahungered :: Ahungered (a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry.

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

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

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..

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

Mullet :: Mullet (n.) Small pinchers for curling the hair.

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

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

Nip :: Nip (n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice..

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..

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..

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..

Chela :: Chela (n.) The pincherlike claw of Crustacea and Arachnida.

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