PINCH,
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.