intransitive. To press with force.

intransitive. To pinch, be constricting. Also: to press or beat down. Cf. pend, n.1 3. Now English regional (East Anglian).

transitive. Chiefly Scottish and English regional. To snatch, seize, or take quickly. Also with away, out, up.

absol. To press hard; to exert pressure, esp. with the hand.

To squeeze; to squelch or to mix roughly; to press together, so as to make a sucking noise. Also intransitive. dialect and colloquial.

intransitive. U.S. colloquial. To apply pressure, esp. forcefully; to press down on something.