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pinching
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 teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
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to seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.]
He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.
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To plait. [Obs.]
Full seemly her wimple ipinched was.
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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. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift. [Slang]
--Robert Barr.to catch; to arrest (a criminal).
Pinching \Pinch"ing\, a. Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4.
Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.
Wiktionary
That pinches, or causes such a sensation n. The act of one who or that which pinches. v
(present participle of pinch English)
Usage examples of "pinching".
The Akka woman spoke sharply, and the people quieted, not without a lot of pinching and protests, so that Falling-down could go on.
Jethro Furber had been dramatic, as usual, painfully pinching his hands together.
Jame, Rothan, and Ghillie were kept continually in motion carrying food and drink to the clamorous mob and suffering everything it could provide by way of pinching, tripping, and general insults.
A variety of stimuli, such as inserting a stick up through the nostrils, pinching tendons or injections of histamine under the skinnormally considered forms of torturealso failed to produce any pain.
If you had seen those hardy and sinewy Frenchmen gliding in the dusk of evening from cottage to cottage, passing the word that the Americans had arrived, saying airy things and pinching one another as they met and hurried on, you would have thought something very amusing and wholly jocund was in preparation for the people of Vincennes.
He seems to have got Kummer to do the pinching and I think how he did it was this.
I did not like the way she kept giggling and giving Lupin smacks and pinching him.
He pulled a handful of bright green, grasslike plants, pinching the roots off with a thumbnail and offering me a whiff of delicate, oniony scent.
He made a pimiento cheese sandwich, then hand-fed it to her, pinching off small pieces one at a time and placing them in her mouth.
I smiled brightly, pinching Roxy on the wrist to keep her from disputing the statement.
Pinching off the nose, smothering, fooling with med lines, injecting succinyl, insulin, potassium.
Her full tits jiggled, and she rubbed them, pinching her own nipples, keening and whimpering as her need to be fucked grew and grew.
My hand delightedly roved over the fat plump cheeks of her arse, stroking, caressing and pinching them, revelling in the firmness and elasticity of her flesh under its thin covering, Alice all the time, wriggling and squirming in horrible shame, imploring me almost incoherently to desist and finally getting so semi-hysterical, that I was compelled to suspend my exquisite game.
The pain was excruciating as the rat bit into the tough material of the protective suit, the teeth not piercing but pinching the skin together.
The first pair only of legs is shown with a pinching claw, possibly intended as a conventionalized hand, while the rest are simple.