Definition of Pinch. Meaning of Pinch. Synonyms of Pinch
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Definition of Pinch
Pinch Pinch Pinch, v. t.
To seize by way of theft; to steal; also, to catch; to
arrest. [Slang] --Robert Barr.
Pinch Pinch Pinch, v. i.
1. To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as,
the shoe pinches.
2. (Hunt.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does. [Obs.]
3. 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.
Pinch Pinch Pinch, v. t. [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. Piece.]
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.
