Word Meanings - BEPINCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.

Related words: (words related to BEPINCH)

• PINCHBECK
  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.
• PINCHFIST
  A closefisted person; a miser.
• PINCHER
  One who, or that which, pinches.
• PINCHING
  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.
• PINCHPENNY
  A miserly person.
• PINCH
  1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. 2. o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. He pinched and
• PINCHCOCK
  A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
• PINCHEM
  The European blue titmouse.
• CHAPMAN
  akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling
• PINCHINGLY
  In a pinching way.
• PINCHERS
  An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc. Note: This spelling is preferable to pincers, both on account of its derivation from the English pinch, and
• BEPINCH
  To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.
• BELLY-PINCHED
  Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.