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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To pinch severely. obsolete, transitive

   "Then let them all encircle him about And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight."

Example

More examples

"Then let them all encircle him about And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight."

Etymology

Created from to pinch, as if to- (“intensively, severely”) + pinch.

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