Chapter Pimpled to Pinfeather of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

5. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.

Pinch
(Pinch), v. i.

1. To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.

2. (Hunt.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does. [Obs.]

3. To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous. Gower.

The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare.

Franklin.

To pinch at, to find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pinch
(Pinch), n.

1. A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

2. As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.

3. Pian; pang. "Necessary's sharp pinch." Shak.

4. A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, — used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.

At a pinch, On a pinch, in an emergency; as, he could on a pinch read a little Latin.

Pinchbeck
(Pinch"beck) n. [Said to be from the name of the inventor; cf. It. prencisbecco.] 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
(Pinch"beck), a. Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. "A pinchbeck throne." J. A. Symonds.

Pinchcock
(Pinch"cock`) n. A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.

Pinchem
(Pin"chem) n. (Zoöl.) The European blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

Pincher
(Pinch"er) n. One who, or that which, pinches.

Pinchers
(Pinch"ers) n. pl. [From Pinch.] An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; — used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.

This spelling is preferable to pincers, both on account of its derivation from the English pinch, and because it represents the common pronunciation.

Pinchfist
(Pinch"fist`) n. A closefisted person; a miser.

Pinching
(Pinch"ing), a. Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.

Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. — Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.

Pinchingly
(Pinch"ing*ly), adv. In a pinching way.

Pinchpenny
(Pinch"pen`ny) n. A miserly person.