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.
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. Chaucer.