Pinching
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pinching is an adjective meaning That pinches, or causes such a sensation.
Meaning
That pinches, or causes such a sensation.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of pinch
- The act of one who or that which pinches.
- (horticulture) The act of pinching off new growth.
Example Sentences
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").
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.
Word Forms
- pinchings
Related Words
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