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▪ I. ˈsqueezing, vbl. n.
[f. squeeze v.]
1. The action of pressing or compressing; the fact of being compressed. Also with out.
1611Cotgr., Pressement, a pressing, squeezing, thrusting..together. Pressoirée, a pressing, straining, squeezing out. 1648Wilkins Math. Mag. i. ix. 57 It is chiefly applied to the squeezing or pressing of things downewards. 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xi. ⁋1 The reason..for this coming down, is the squeezing of the several parts in the Press. 1730Bailey (fol.), Ecpiesmus, a straining, wringing, or squeezing out. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 330 The oppression and squeezing of the chest he felt during the greater part of the night. 1855Bain Senses & Intell. ii. ii. §5 That the squeezing or pinching of a nerve can produce sensibility is proved in many experiments. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 317 There was a great crowding and squeezing, and some children screamed with fright.
fig.a1700Dict. Cant. Crew, Squeezing of Wax, being bound for any Body; also sealing of Writings.
b. That which is squeezed out.
a1683Oldham Wks. & Rem. (1686) 25 Heavens just pow'r thought fit To scourge this latter, and more sinful age With all the dregs, and squeesings of his rage. a1719Addison tr. Virg. Georg. iv. Wks. 1721 I. 23 His Bees first swarm'd, and made his vessels foam With the rich squeezing of the juicy comb.
2. The action of oppressing by exactions or extortion; the practice of extorting excessive or illicit gain.
1681R. L'Estrange Tully's Offices 147 Publique Cheats, Oppressions, Squeezing of the people. 1693Humours Town 32 Being better acquainted with the squeezing and harassing of their tenants. 1697J. Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 74 Let there nothing be said against..Spinning out of Causes, Squeesing of Clients. 1768Foote Devil i. Wks. 1799 II. 252 He only suggested their cent. per cent. squeezings, and prompted the various modes of extortion and rapine. 1864Athenæum No. 1923. 297/2 The squeezing, or black mail,..of the mandarins. 1892Daily News 26 Oct. 5/7 From the highest official to the lowest all practise a system of unblushing robbery, called ‘squeezing’.
3. attrib., as squeezing action, squeezing noise, squeezing process; squeezing-box (see quot. 1875); † squeezing watch, ? a repeating watch operated by pressing the mechanism.
1708Brit. Apollo No. 30. 4/2 Lost..a Gold Squeezing-watch, with a Gold Chain to it. Ibid. No. 40. 4/2 Lost.., a Gold Sweezing Watch. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xxxiii. (1856) 283 We could hear a squeezing noise among the ice-fields. 1868Rep. Munitions War 285 Close the breech by a squeezing action. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2295/2 Squeezing-box, a metallic cylinder having a hole in the bottom, through which clay is pressed for shaping the handles, etc., of earthenware. 1900Daily News 24 Sept. 2/2 Now I hope the squeezing process has come to an end.
▪ II. ˈsqueezing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec.]
That squeezes, in various senses; also, indicative of effort.
a1687Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Poems (1775) 144 His squeezing looks, his pangs of wit accuse, The very symptoms of a breeding muse. a1726in P. Walker Life R. Cameron in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827) I. 291 With squeezing Boots malignant Malice sported. 1727Swift Wonder of Wonders Wks. 1751 II. ii. 52 He hath the reputation to be a close, griping, squeezing fellow. 1839[see squeezer 3]. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xxxix. (1856) 358 Followed by the peculiar swash of squeezing ice. 1897Westm. Gaz. 15 Feb. 3 Would she..remain fixed to be crushed by the squeezing masses? |