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Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the key is inside.

To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak.

A leopard; a panther. And more pinch-spotted make them Than pard or cat o'mountain. Shak.

with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.

A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. [Obs.] "Let such pelters prate." Gascoigne.

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A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.

The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall.

; obstruction, an impediment; especially, a difficulty or obstruction hard to overcome; a pinch. Every rub is smoothed on our way. Shak. To sleep, perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub. Shak. Upon this rub, the English ambassadors thought fit to demur. Hayward. One knows not, certainly, what other rubs might have bee…

One who scribles; a literary hack. The scribbler, pinched with hunger, writes to dine. Granville.

A pinching miser; a niggard. [U.S.]

eaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving. [Prev. Eng. & Colloq. U.S.]

The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.

teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.

A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] This put the old fellow in a rare tweague. Arbuthnot.

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose. Shak.

Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.