A niggardly person who starves himself (and others)

Usage examples of pinchgut.

The bare, rocky islet used for the punishment of the more recalcitrant of the convicts was named, by them, Pinchgut and- in ever more frequent occupation-it lived up to its name.

And, if you please, Mister Brewer, send a boat out to Pinchgut immediately to release the girl Taggart.

Brewer had told her, and no prisoner sentenced to banishment on Pinchgut was permitted more.

They were watching months of backbreaking toil being destroyed, seeing their hopes wantonly shattered, but they were afraid to make a move to stop it, because one of their number-one who had had the guts to try-had been sentenced to a week on Pinchgut Island for her pains.

The following afternoon, heralded by the shouted orders of Midshipman Brewer and the sound of oars creaking in their rowlocks, a boat from the Sirius came to Pinchgut Island.

In the ill-fitting sack dress and worn shawl, her hair flowing loose and unkempt from her twenty-four hours on Pinchgut, she looked, she was aware, very much like the kind of woman Hannah had suggested she was.

She had meant to tell him of the visit of the two natives and of their unexpected kindness to her when they had found her marooned on Pinchgut Island but she was outside his marquee now and could not go back.

We kept them all to celebrate your return from Pinchgut because we reckoned you deserved them more than that Bulmore in the hospital, the lying swine!

Her attempt to protect the garden from the thieving Bulmore had lost her the chance of remission, and now his comrades, not content with seeing her sentenced to a week on Pinchgut, had destroyed all that she and the others had worked for in a senseless act of revenge.

She dragged herself to her feet and, as memory returned, felt for the locket in the bosom of her dress, uncertain-until she had confirmed that it was missing-whether, like the visit of the Indians to Pinchgut Island, this, too, had been a nightmare.

To any strangers she was invariably described, with expressive signs and gestures, as the one who had been chained, Baneelon making a great pantomime of it, groaning, rolling his eyes, and pointing to Pinchgut Island, which instantly won her the sympathy of the newcomers.

But then we never chained a woman on Pinchgut before or since, did we?

It was equally true that any comer to the Pinchgut had a good chance of being knocked on the head for his purse, or fractured in a fracas, or merely poisoned by bad whiskey.

They all seemed to have congregated in the Pinchgut at the moment, not because the provender here was of better quality, but because it was more abundant.

In their individual and aggregate air of corruption, malevolence and misanthropy, they made the other inhabitants of the Pinchgut look as genteel and demure as countinghouse clerks.