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pinch
1. the quantity of a substance, such as salt, that can be taken between a thumb and finger
2. a very small quantity
pinch [pinch]
(engineering)
The closing-in of borehole walls before casing is emplaced, resulting from rock failure when drilling in formations having a low compressional strength.
(geology)
Thinning of a rock layer, as where a vein narrows.
(mining engineering)
horseback squeeze


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Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
You promised not to pinch if I would carry you here
The Emerald City of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
The Marquis took a gentle little pinch of snuff, and shook his head; as elegantly despondent as he could becomingly be of a country still containing himself, that great means of regeneration.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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