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1600 T. Nashe Summer's Last Will sig. G4 But two Sonnes he hath..Christmas the one, a pinch-back, cut-throate churle.

1862 E. Tootle Jrnl. 5 July in K. L. Holmes Diaries & Lett. from Western Trails VIII. 89 I would die for a Southerner, but would not give a cent for a Pinch back Yankey.

1924 J. Edwards in P. Oliver Screening Blues (1968) ii. 65 When you go out your front-door to work A pinchback come in your back gate.

1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 74/1 The application of a lever or pinch-bar.

1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. ii. 46 He went and tore down half a mountain... He had to take a pinch-bar to move it.

1993 Hand Tools 10 Crowbars (also called pinchbars) can..be used to make post holes.

1904 Trenton (New Jersey) Times 19 July 10/2 McGuire..has participated in 1519 championship games as a catcher. He has been pulled into many others as a pinch batter.

1928 Chicago Tribune 5 Oct. 26/1 The pinch batter exercised rare judgment and drew a pass.

2002 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. (Nexis) 10 Apr. (Sport section) d2 Cranston East began the bottom of the ninth with three pinch batters, two of whom got on base.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Spaer-beck,..a Sparer,..or a Pinch-belly.

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (1754) App. 318 I am against all extremes, and especially on the pinch-belly side.

1844 Times 22 Apr. 4/3 The pinch-belly system has been adopted as a radical cure for plethoric paupers.

1974 W. Foley Child in Forest 190 After two pinch-belly jobs, the chance to work in the house of a remote hundred-acre farm in Wales seemed a good idea.

1916 Indianapolis Star 22 Oct. i. 10/1 (advt.) Extra Cyrila. The Olive Oil in the ‘Pinch Bottle’.

1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle x. 103 Mr Rittenhouse gave him a lift to the bootlegger's, ordered a whole case of pinchbottle on Pop's recommendation..and invited us down to..dinner.

2003 Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 12 Oct. e3 A pinch bottle of Haig and Haig scotch whiskey served as a bookend on the shelf.

1862 Philos. Trans. 1861 (Royal Soc.) 151 487 A funnel is then attached to the tube b, by means of a caoutchouc tube which can be closed by a strong pinch-cock.

1935 Bull. Neurol. Inst. N.Y. 4 8 A bottle with a pinchcock on the connecting tube of the nosepiece.

2003 Snoop Jan. 71/3 The oesophagus has a pinch-cock mechanism at its upper end to insure that materials will not come back into the mouth.

1821 W. Scott Pirate I. vi. 124 The crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-commons, by which it is inhabited.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xxv. 206/2 Pinchcrust.

1602 S. Rowlands Greenes Ghost sig. B A young Gentleman, Merchant, or old pinchcrust.

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Pantagr. Prognost. 234 Pinch-crusts, Hold-fasts, Michers, and Penny-fathers.

1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 83 The eye..ought to be broad, round, and of an equal thickness; for if one part of the eye be thinner than the rest, it is said to be pinch-ey'd, which is deemed a very great imperfection.

1885 Harper's Mag. Aug. 431/2 We are met by the sheik, a white-haired, big-nosed, pinch-eyed man.

1977 P. Benes Masks of Orthodoxy 166 An unidentified Providence carver..engraved pinch-eyed faces somewhat resembling Massachusetts prototypes.

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C2^v My pinch fart penie-father.

1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 7 It a vor oll th'art an abomination Pinchvart vor thy own Eends.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Pinchfart A proper old pinchfart! why I'll war'n un he'd skin a vlint vor ha'penny.

1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea vi. 158 Johnson..began telling Ben about his triumph over the whoreson pinchfart master-at-arms.

1927 Daily Express 12 Nov. 8/3 Old hand-made iron or steel ‘pinch finger’ fire tongs.

1869 A. Cayley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 159 207 The pinch-plane, or reciprocal singularity j′ = l, is in fact a torsal plane touching the surface along a line, or meeting it in the line twice and in a residual curve... Considering..the reciprocal figure, the reciprocal of the pinch-plane is thus a point of the nodal curve, and is a pinch-point.

1929 Amer. Math. Monthly 36 515 If we reciprocate the above configuration we get another rational surface having a pinch plane.

1892 Daily News 25 Apr. 5/7 The most beggarly-spirited pinch-plum economy.

1868 A. Cayley in Q. Jrnl. Pure & Appl. Math. 9 332 A surface having a nodal line has in general on this nodal line points where the two tangent planes coincide, or as I propose to term them ‘pinch-points’.

1961 Times 15 Aug. 10/3 No loading or unloading at all will be permitted at important intersections and other ‘pinch points’.

1965 New Society 11 Nov. 10/3 Oliver Cox considers heating one of the major ‘pinch-points’ in building today.

1992 Which? Oct. 33/2 Pinch Points... These slow traffic by interrupting flow.

1997 Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 329 The obvious multiple structure defined on C, in case C is a curve of contact on F, is symmetric if SingF contains at least one pinch point.

1953 Engineer 23 Oct. 526/2 The slabs have to be pressure fed into the rolls at a constant rate by pinch or feed rolls.

1958 H. G. M. Spratt Magn. Tape Recording vii. 202 The tape..is held in tight contact with it [sc. a roller] by means of a spring-loaded, free-running, rubber or rubber-covered roll generally referred to as the pinch roll.

1964 A. A. McWilliams Tape Recording viii. 160 The tape is held in firm contact—with a rotating spindle—the capstan—by means of a rubber-tyred pressure roller, or pinch roll.

2003 Rubber World (Nexis) 22 June 8 This mini cutter pinch roll system automatically feeds, measures and cuts tubing and hose to a variety of lengths.

1949 S. J. Begun Magn. Recording vi. 174 An interesting feature of this equipment is the..spindle which acts as a capstan as soon as a rubber-tyred pinch roller sandwiches the tape against it.

1974 Physics Bull. Apr. 151/1 Another feature is the vacuum buffered, low tension drive which eliminates pinch-rollers and associated mechanical problems.

1992 Independent 19 Sept. 39/3 Sony has overcome the problem by using ‘pinch rollers’ and self-aligning guides inside the cassette to steer the steady passage of the tape.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 258 Shorten vp their sinewes With aged Cramps, & more pinch-spotted make them, Then Pard, or Cat o'Mountaine. View more context for this quotation

1682 Philos. Coll. (Royal Soc.) No. 4. 103 After great Rains,..or strong westerly Winds,..then the Pinch-water will be found earlier..by about half an hour.

1725 T. Badeslade Hist. Navigation King's-Lyn ii. 13 The Rivers natural Receptacles of the Tides..still drawing the Waters on..occasioned the Tide to flow forward some time after Pinch-water.

1883 Academy 11 Aug. 92 She [sc. the Virgin Mary] used to employ it in the manufacture of an ointment, but on one occasion ‘She could not find it in time of need, And so she pinched it for a weed.’.. Every leaf has a dark spot in the centre, just as though it had been pinched, on which account it goes by the name of pinch~weed.

1898 Middletown (N.Y.) Daily Argus 13 Aug. 5/4 An innocent farmer had built up a pile of $50 on a pinch wheel, which the fakir got in his pockets before the authorities stopped him.

1908 Indiana (Pa.) Progress 12 Aug. 1/3 Troopers..arrested T. J. Hague..on a charge of operating a pinch wheel.

1962 H. B. Hadden High-quality Sound Production & Reprod. x. 160 The tape is held in contact with the capstan by the pinch wheel.

1995 Camcorder User Apr. 67/1 Demagnetise and clean the heads, pinch wheels and all metal in the tape path of audio cassette decks.