An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language
Chapter 620 : _Mellvills MS._ PINCH, PUNCH, _s._ An iron lever, S. Fland. _pinsse_, Fr. _pince_, id.

_Mellvill's MS._

PINCH, PUNCH, _s._ An iron lever, S.

Fland. _pinsse_, Fr. _pince_, id.

_To_ PYNE, _v. a._ To subject to pain, S.

Isl. _pyn-a_, A. S. _pinan_, torquere.

_Wall._

~Pyne~, _s._

1. Pain, S.

_Wyntown._

2. Labour, pains.

_Douglas._

A. S. _pin_, Teut. _pyne_, cruciatus.

PYNE DOUBLET, a concealed coat of mail.

Su. G. _pin-a_, coarctare.

_Cromerty._

PINERIS, PYNORIS, _s. pl._ Pioneers.

_Knox._

_To_ PINGE.

V. ~Peenge~.

_To_ PINGIL, PINGLE,

1. _v. n._ To strive, to labour a.s.siduously without making much progress, S.

_Douglas._

2. To vie with.

_Douglas._

3. To toil for a scanty sustenance.

_Dunbar._

4. _v. a._ To reduce to straits.

_Douglas._

Su. G. _pyng_, labour, anxiety.

~Pingil~, ~Pingle~, _s._

1. A strife, S.

_Ramsay._

2. Difficulty, S.

_Journal Lond._

3. Hesitation.

_Ramsay._

~Pingling~, _s._ Difficulty, S.

_Pitscottie._

PINYIONE, _s._ A handful of armed men.

_Acts Marie._

_To_ PINK, _v. n._ To contract the eye, to glimmer, S.

Teut. _pinck-ooghen_, oculos contrahere.

~Pinkie~, _adj._ Applied to the eye, when small, or contracted, S.

_Ramsay._

_To_ PINK, _v. n._ To trickle, to drop, S. B.

_Ross._