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Pinch
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; - said of animals.
(2):
(v. t.) To plait.
(3):
(v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
(4):
(v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
(5):
(v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
(6):
(n.) Pian; pang.
(7):
(n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, - used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
(8):
(v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
(9):
(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.
(10):
(v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
(11):
(v. t.) To seize by way of theft; to steal; also, to catch; to arrest.
(12):
(n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
(13):
(n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pinch'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pinch.html. 1828.
