What does pinching mean?
Pinching means That pinches, or causes such a sensation.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
That pinches, or causes such a sensation.
It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.
Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.
As "Kings of the Covers," they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS ("Stranded In The Jungle").
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Pinching means That pinches, or causes such a sensation.
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It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
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