topinch

verb

verb

Etymology Created from to pinch, as if to- (“intensively, severely”) + pinch.

Obsolete To pinch severely.

Then let them all encircle him about And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:

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