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Definition of Pinching
1. a. Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
Definition of Pinching
1. Adjective. That pinches, or causes such a sensation ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of pinch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinching
1. pinch [v] - See also: pinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinching
Literary usage of Pinching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1860)
"But when the pinching is performed at the proper time the shoot ceases to lengthen,
and the lower pair of leaves remains near the base. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1881)
"... playing odd-or-even under the master's eye, eating apples openly and without
rebuke, pinching each other in sport or malice without the least reserve, ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... and starving the living" Alluding to his charging provisions for those that
had been long dead, and at the same time pinching out for his own gain, ..."
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