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Small amount, in a recipe
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pinch
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 .] To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between ...
Usage examples of pinch.
Cover with salted and acidulated water, add a bunch of parsley, a sliced onion, and a pinch of powdered sweet herbs.
Scale and clean two large kingfish, and boil in salted and acidulated water, with a bunch of parsley, a slice each of carrot and onion, and a pinch of powdered sweet herbs.
The Akka woman spoke sharply, and the people quieted, not without a lot of pinching and protests, so that Falling-down could go on.
Singular, communed the guest with himself, the wonderfully unequal faculty of metempsychosis possessed by them, that the puerperal dormitory and the dissecting theatre should be the seminaries of such frivolity, that the mere acquisition of academic titles should suffice to transform in a pinch of time these votaries of levity into exemplary practitioners of an art which most men anywise eminent have esteemed the noblest.
Replacing the aspergillum, the priest took a pinch of barley meal from golden salver beside the bowl.
But I remember the pinched little self-hating man who came to my auberge forty years ago.
Then he pinched her chin in an almost avuncular fashion and, to her mixed regret and relief, released it.
Sometimes, it was when Vetch moved a little too quickly, once, when Baken accidentally pinched a fold of skin while harnessing him.
Captain Bazan Deralta had an old, lined face with tufted eyebrows and a pinched nose set above a firm mouth and prominent jaw.
They walk in the middle of winter with their poor little toes pinched into a miniature slipper, incapable of excluding as much moisture as might bedew a primrose.
SmithKline Beecham, that exercise in bioinformatics yielded in just weeks a promising drug target that standard laboratory experiments could not have found without years and a pinch of luck.
Force-hold to pinch off that brachial artery, she would have bled out in seconds.
His jaw muscles bunch and his nostrils flare and pinch at a dreamed whiff of cadaverine breath.
Elora pinched her extra hard, and Caille locked her hands in with her strong little forearms.
Take sauce off the fire and stir in by degrees two tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, two tablespoons of Indian soy, one finely chopped green gherkin, one small pinch of cayenne pepper, and a small quantity of salt.