Pinch
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; - said of animals.
(2): ( v. t.) To plait.
(3): ( v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
(4): ( v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
(5): ( v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
(6): ( n.) Pian; pang.
(7): ( n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, - used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
(8): ( v. i.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
(9): ( 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.
(10): ( v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
(11): ( v. t.) To seize by way of theft; to steal; also, to catch; to arrest.
(12): ( n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
(13): ( n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, the teeth, claws, or with an instrument, &c. 2. To squeeze or compress between any two hard bodies. 3. To squeeze the flesh till it is pained or livid. 4. To gripe to straiten to oppress with want as, to pinch a nation to pinch the belly to be pinched for want of food. 5. To pain by constriction to distress as pinching cold. The winter pinches. 6. To press to straiten by difficulties as,the argument pinches the objector.
The respondent is pinched with a strong objection.
7. To press hard to try thoroughly.
Pinch, To act with pressing force to bear hard to be puzzling. You see where the reasons pinch.
1. To spare to be straitened to be covetous.
The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare,
Starve, steal and pilfer to enrich an heir.
Pinch, n. A close compression with the ends of the fingers.
1. A gripe a pang. 2. Distress inflected or suffered pressure oppression as necessity's sharp pinch. 3. Straits difficulty time of distress from want.
