Pinch vs Crib - What's the difference?

Pinch is a synonym of crib.

In slang|lang=en terms the difference between pinch and crib

is that pinch is (slang) to arrest or capture while crib is (slang) one’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.

In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between pinch and crib

is that pinch is (nautical) to sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter while crib is (nautical) a small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between pinch and crib

is that pinch is (obsolete) to be niggardly or covetous while crib is (obsolete) to steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

As verbs the difference between pinch and crib

is that pinch is to squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt while crib is to place or confine in a crib.

As nouns the difference between pinch and crib

is that pinch is the action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt while crib is (us) a baby’s bed (british and australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

pinch

English

Verb

(es)

To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

The children were scolded for pinching each other.

This shoe pinches my foot.

To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.

Someone has pinched my handkerchief!

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(slang) To arrest or capture.

(horticulture) To cut shoots]] or [[bud, buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.

(nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.

(hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.

(obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.

(Gower)

* Franklin

the wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare

To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.

* Chapman

He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.

(figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.

to be pinched for money

* Sir Walter Raleigh

want of room pinching a whole nation

To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.

Noun

(es)

The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.

A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.

An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.

* 1955 , edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 171:

It took nerve and muscle both to carry the body out and down the stairs to the lower hall, but he damn well had to get it out of his place and away from his door, and any of those four could have done it in a pinch', and it sure was a ' pinch .

An organic herbal smoke additive.

Derived terms

* feel the pinch * in a pinch * at a pinch * pinchy * take with a pinch of salt

Descendants

* Japanese: (pinchi)

crib

English

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

Synonyms

* (holiday home) bach (qualifier)

Derived terms

* crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib board

Verb

(cribb)

To place or confine in a crib.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

* I. Taylor

if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped

* Shakespeare

Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.

To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.

To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

(obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848, Chapter 14.

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

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To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

* Gauden

Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.

(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

Derived terms

* cribber

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