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- Pinch - v. t. - 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.
- Pinch - v. t. - o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
- Pinch - v. t. - To plait.
- Pinch - v. t. - Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
- Pinch - v. t. - To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
- Pinch - v. i. - To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
- Pinch - v. i. - To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- Pinch - v. i. - To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
- Pinch - n. - A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
- Pinch - n. - As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
- Pinch - n. - Pian; pang.
- Pinch - n. - A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
- Pinchbeck - n. - An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
- Pinchbeck - a. - Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
- Pinchcock - n. - A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
- Pinched - imp. & p. p. - of Pinch
- Pinchem - n. - The European blue titmouse.
- Pincher - n. - One who, or that which, pinches.
- Pinchers - n. pl. - An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
- Pinchfist - n. - A closefisted person; a miser.
- Pinching - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Pinch
- Pinching - a. - Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
- Pinchingly - adv. - In a pinching way.
- Pinchpenny - n. - A miserly person.
- Gripe - v. i. - To clutch, hold, or pinch a thing, esp. money, with a gripe or as with a gripe.
- Pinch - n. - A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
- Tweak - v. t. - To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose.
- Tweak - n. - A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch; as, a tweak of the nose.
- Pinch - n. - As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
- Crimp - v. t. - To pinch and hold; to seize.
- Skinch - v. t. & i. - To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.
- Nip - n. - A pinch with the nails or teeth.
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- H1103 בָּלַס - 1103 בָּלַס - בָּלַס - - bâlaç - baw-las' - a primitive root; to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them); gatherer. - Verb - heb
- G3983 πεινάω - 3983 πεινάω - ΠΕΙΝΆΩ - - peináō - pi-nah'-o - from the same as πένης (through the idea of pinching toil; "pine"); to famish (absolutely or comparatively); figuratively, to crave:--be an hungered. - Verb - greek
- H7169 קָרַץ - 7169 קָרַץ - קָרַץ - - qârats - kaw-rats' - a primitive root; to pinch, i.e. (partially) to bite the lips, blink the eyes (as a gesture of malice), or (fully) to squeeze off (a piece of clay in order to mould a vessel from it); form, move, wink. - Verb - heb