Full seemly her wimple ipinched was.
Chaucer.
4. Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to
distress; as, to be pinched for money.
Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation.
Sir W. Raleigh.
5. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See
Pinch, n., 4.
Pinch, v. i. 1. To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze;
as, the shoe pinches.