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To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.

To benumb [''e.g.'', cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.

To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

To annoy, as by nipping.

To taunt.

(Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.

(thieves) To steal; especially to cut a purse. +

(obsolete) To affect [one] painfully; to cause physical pain.'

A playful bite.

A pinch with the nails or teeth.

Briskly cold weather.

A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching

A small cut, or a cutting off the end.

(mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.

A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.

A biting sarcasm; a taunt.

(nautical) A short turn in a rope.

(papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another

(thieves) A pickpocket. +

A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor. +

(vulgar) A nipple, usually of a woman.

(vulgar) To have erect nipples.

(informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.

(northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.