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pinching

In ceramics, a simple method used to make basic container shapes, or pinch pots, from a ball of clay. The clay is drawn out with the fingers by literally ‘pinching’ the clay between the thumb and forefingers to form the sides of the pinch pot.
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" he cried, "see what you have been hissing," and held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals.
Fables by Aesop View in context
My breath was coming in quick, short gasps, cold sweat stood out from every pore of my body, and the ancient experiment of pinching revealed the fact that I was anything other than a wraith.
A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
They offered, however, to accompany the party if it would delay its departure until the following day; but this the pinching demands of hunger would not permit, and the detachment proceeded.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
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