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PINCH, v.t.

1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, the teeth, claws, or with an instrument, &c.

2. To squeeze or compress between any two hard bodies.

3. To squeeze the flesh till it is pained or livid.

4. To gripe; to straiten; to oppress with want; as, to pinch a nation; to pinch the belly; to be pinched for want of food.

5. To pain by constriction; to distress; as pinching cold. The winter pinches.

6. To press; to straiten by difficulties; as,the argument pinches the objector.

The respondent is pinched with a strong objection.

7. To press hard; to try thoroughly.

PINCH, v.i. To act with pressing force; to bear hard; to be puzzling. You see where the reasons pinch.

1. To spare; to be straitened; to be covetous.

The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare,

Starve, steal and pilfer to enrich an heir.

PINCH, n. A close compression with the ends of the fingers.

1. A gripe; a pang.

2. Distress inflected or suffered; pressure; oppression; as necessity's sharp pinch.

3. Straits; difficulty; time of distress from want.
1913 Definition
Pinch (pinch)
v. t.(?)
Pinch
[imp. *** p. p. Pinched (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Pinching.] [F. pincer, probably fr. OD. pitsen to pinch] akin to G. pfetzen to cut, pinch; perhaps of Celtic origin. Cf.
  1. 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.
  2. o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
    [Obs.]

    He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. Chapman.

  3. To plait.
    [Obs.]

    Full seemly her wimple ipinched was. Chaucer.

  4. Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.

    Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation. Sir W. Raleigh.

  5. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
  6. To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
  7. To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
    [Obs.]
  8. To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
    Gower.

    The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare. Franklin.

    To pinch at, to find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

  9. A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
  10. As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
  11. Pian; pang.
    "Necessary's sharp pinch." Shak.
  12. A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

    At a pinch, On a pinch, in an emergency; as, he could on a pinch read a little Latin.

  13. To seize by way of theft; to steal; also, to catch; to arrest.
    [Slang] Robert Barr.
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