pinch

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

The children were scolded for pinching each other.

This shoe pinches my foot.

To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.

He took the plate in his hand, holding it between thumb and forefinger at one corner, letting it hang down. With the other hand he pinched it at the opposite corner, pressing thumb and forefinger together tightly.

To squeeze between two objects.

Since the resistance of the channel is inversely proportional to its width, the most resistive region is the one pinched between the gates where they come closest to each other.

Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.

With their jock-straps pinching, they slouch to attention While queueing for sarnies at the office canteen.

To steal, usually something inconsequential.

Someone has pinched my handkerchief!

“Hey, blokes,” yelled Dean or perhaps Serge, “let's pinch a boat.”

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.

And wel his merits ſhew him to be made His Fortunes maiſter, and the king of men. That could perſwade at ſuch a ſodaine pinch, With reaſons of his valour and his life, A thouſand ſworne and ouer-matching foes:

It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch, and it sure was a pinch.

A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.