Word Meanings - TWEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose. Shak.

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• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• PINCHFIST
  A closefisted person; a miser.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• PINCHER
  One who, or that which, pinches.
• TWITCH
  To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand; to twitch off clusters of grapes. Thrice they twitched the diamond in her ear. Pope. (more info)
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
• SUDDEN
  soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p.p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation;
• SUDDENTY
  Suddenness; a sudden. On a suddenty, on a sudden. Sir W. Scott.
• TWEAK
  To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch; as, to tweak the nose. Shak.
• PINCHING
  Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.
• PINCHPENNY
  A miserly person.
• PINCH
  1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. 2. o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. He pinched and
• TWIST
  twi- two; akin to D. twist a quarrel, dissension, G. zwist, Dan. & Sw. tvist, Icel. twistr the deuce in cards, tvistr distressed. See 1. To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve. Twist it into a serpentine form. Pope.
• PINCHCOCK
  A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
• TWITCHER
  One who, or that which, twitches.
• TWISTED
  Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted. Twisted curve , a curve of double curvature. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface , a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet
• PINCHEM
  The European blue titmouse.
• TWITCH GRASS
  See GRASS
• TWISTE
  imp. of Twist. Chaucer.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• BEPINCH
  To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.
• INTERTWISTINGLY
  By intertwisting, or being intertwisted.