"pinch at" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinches at",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinching at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinched at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinched at",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pinch at (third-person singular simple present pinches at, present participle pinching at, simple past and past participle pinched at)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"at\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1592, Matthew Sutcliffe1, “CERTAINE QVESTIONS PROPOVNDED to the Putcase and his adherents”, in An Answer to a certaine libel supplicatorie, […] and also to certaine calumnious articles […] to the slaunder of the Ecclesiasticall state, […] put forth under the name of a petition directed to Her Maiestie [relating to the alleged wrongful condemnation of J. Udall on an indictment for libel], page 185:",
          "text": "[…]and lastly in what case the Putcase, and his fellowes are, that in broade speeches openly, and in printed bookes directly oppugne them; and by calumnious questions pinch at them?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1599, Edward Topsell, “18th sermon”, in Times lamentation: or An exposition on the prophet Ioel, in sundry sermons or meditations, page 229:",
          "text": "If the enimie come home to vs it is not ten subsidies that wil satisfie him: & why are men so wret∣ched as to pinch at one or two?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1663, John Humfrey, A Defence of the Proposition: Or, Some Reasons Rendred why the Nonconformist-minister who Comes to His Parish-church and Common-prayer Cannot Yet Yeeld to Other Things that are Enjoyned, Without Some Moderation. Being a Full Reply to the Book [by Thomas Tomkins] which is a Pretended Answer Thereunto, pages 58–59:",
          "text": "The one is, I would have them be at the pains (though they took time enough to do it) to have a Common-Prayer framed throughout altogether in Scripture-expression, that no mortal wight should ever pinch at it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To find fault with; to take exception to."
      ],
      "id": "en-pinch_at-en-verb-P~FyXAsv",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To find fault with; to take exception to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinch at"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinches at",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinching at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinched at",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pinched at",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pinch at (third-person singular simple present pinches at, present participle pinching at, simple past and past participle pinched at)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"at\"",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1592, Matthew Sutcliffe1, “CERTAINE QVESTIONS PROPOVNDED to the Putcase and his adherents”, in An Answer to a certaine libel supplicatorie, […] and also to certaine calumnious articles […] to the slaunder of the Ecclesiasticall state, […] put forth under the name of a petition directed to Her Maiestie [relating to the alleged wrongful condemnation of J. Udall on an indictment for libel], page 185:",
          "text": "[…]and lastly in what case the Putcase, and his fellowes are, that in broade speeches openly, and in printed bookes directly oppugne them; and by calumnious questions pinch at them?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1599, Edward Topsell, “18th sermon”, in Times lamentation: or An exposition on the prophet Ioel, in sundry sermons or meditations, page 229:",
          "text": "If the enimie come home to vs it is not ten subsidies that wil satisfie him: & why are men so wret∣ched as to pinch at one or two?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1663, John Humfrey, A Defence of the Proposition: Or, Some Reasons Rendred why the Nonconformist-minister who Comes to His Parish-church and Common-prayer Cannot Yet Yeeld to Other Things that are Enjoyned, Without Some Moderation. Being a Full Reply to the Book [by Thomas Tomkins] which is a Pretended Answer Thereunto, pages 58–59:",
          "text": "The one is, I would have them be at the pains (though they took time enough to do it) to have a Common-Prayer framed throughout altogether in Scripture-expression, that no mortal wight should ever pinch at it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To find fault with; to take exception to."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) To find fault with; to take exception to."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pinch at"
}