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Definition of To pinch at

To pinch at
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.

Meaning of To pinch at from wikipedia

- Look up pinch or pinching in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pinch or pinching may refer to: Pinch (action), to grip an object or substance between two...
- In baseball, a pinch hitter (PH) is a substitute batter. Batters can be substituted at any time while the ball is dead (not in active play); the manager...
- power research, the Z-pinch (zeta pinch) is a type of plasma confinement system that uses an electric current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field...
- To take something with a "grain of salt" or "pinch of salt" is an English idiom that suggests to view something, specifically claims that may be misleading...
- the Vulcan nerve pinch is a fictional technique used mainly by Vulcans to render unconsciousness by pinching a pressure point at the base of the victim's...
- Carolina at Chapel Hill. recently kitchen supply stores... have begun selling sets of "minispoons" in which the spoon labeled "pinch" is designed to hold...
- softball, a pinch runner is a player substituted into a game for the purpose of base running. A pinch runner may be faster or otherwise more skilled at base...
- Pinch analysis is a methodology for minimising energy consumption of chemical processes by calculating thermodynamically feasible energy targets (or minimum...
- A pinch valve is a full bore or fully ported type of control valve which uses a pinching effect to obstruct fluid flow. Pinch valves employ an elastic...
- A pinch-out or wedge-out is a point where a stratum or other lithologically distinct body of rock thins to a feather edge and disappears, so that the underlying...