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Outsider :: Outsider (n.) 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..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.

Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..

Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..

Skinch :: Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

Gripe :: Gripe (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances..

Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (n.) 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..

Pinch :: Pinch (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip..

Pinchcock :: Pinchcock (n.) A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.

Necessitous :: Necessitous (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches..

Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

Nip :: Nip (v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

Pinched :: Pinched (imp. & p. p.) of Pinc.

Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains..

Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..

Pinching :: Pinching (a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony..

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