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▪ I. hinch, v. Obs. exc. dial. [Usually associated with pinch, or crinch, both implying compression, and perh. formed after them. Cf. also hunch v.] 1. As a riming synonym of pinch v. a. intr.
1559J. Aylmer Harb. Faithf. Subj. P j a, These Romaines..being..brought to the last cast by the long and daungerous warres of Hanibal and the Frenche, did..bring in their mony and goodes, without hinching or pinching, to reliefe the charges of their common welth. 1600Heywood 1st Pt. Edw. IV, iv. iv. Wks. 1874 I. 73 What haue you saued now..by your hinching and your pinching? not the worth of a blacke pudding. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D'Alf. I. 217 Stand not a hinching and a crinching with him. 1847Halliwell, Hinch, to be miserly. Linc. b. trans.
1590Greene Never too late (1600) 102 A doubt whether it were Loue, or some other furie worse then Loue, that thus hincht him and pincht him. 2. intr. ? To spurn.
1626W. Fenner Hidden Manna (1652) B v a, The more it is wilful; it hinches and winches, and snuffes against it. 1631J. Speed Love's Rev. To Rdr., Whereat if any kick or hinch, Were he not gauld, he should not winch. ▪ II. hinch north. dial. f. haunch n.1, haunch v.3 |