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To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
(quote-book)
To squeeze between two objects.
Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
(quote-song)|passage=With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attentionWhile queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.
To steal, usually something inconsequential.
(RQ:Pynchon Crying Lot)
(quote-journal)
To arrest or capture.
To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
(RQ:Gower CA)
1788, (w) (attributed), ''Paper''

the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

To seize; to grip; to bite.
(RQ:Homer Chapman Odysseys)
To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
(RQ:Shakespeare Winter's Tale)
(RQ:Raleigh War) which pincheth the whole nation
(RQ:Morris Signs of Change)the well-to-do working men did not hope, since they were not pinched and had no means of learning their degraded position(..)
(RQ:William James Varieties)
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
To complain or fault.
1809, (w) ed. ''The Works of the English Poets, from Cahucer to Cowper'', Vol. 1, modern rendering of poem imputed to (w), "A Ballad which Chaucer made in Praise or rather Dispraise of Women for their Doubleness":

Therefore who so them accuse

Of any double entencion,

To speake, rowne, other to muse,

To pinch at their condicion,

All is but false collusion,

I dare rightwell the sothe express,

They have no better protection,

But shrowd them vnder doubleness.

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
A close compression of anything with the fingers.

''I gave the leather of the sofa a pinch, gauging the texture.''

A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

''Mix about four cups of white flour with a pinch of salt.''

An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
{{quote-book|en|year=1955|author=Rex Stout|chapter=Die Like a Dog|title=Witnesses (book)|Three Witnesses|month=October|year_published=1994|publisher=Books|Bantam|isbn=0553249592|page=171
A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
An organic herbal smoke additive.
A magnetic compression of an electrically-conducting filament.
(senseid) The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
{{quote-text|en|year=2001|author=Terry Pratchett|title=Thief of Time
An arrest.