pinch out (English, verb)
expansion: pinch out (third-person singular simple present pinches out, present participle pinching out, simple past and past participle pinched out)
Senses:
glosses: To remove the shoots of a plant:
the leading shoot in order to encourage a bushy habit
glosses: To remove the shoots of a plant:
a plant's side shoots
topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
glosses: For a distinct body of rock between underlying and overlying strata, to thin out and come to an end, so that the strata above come to lie on the strata below.
Forms:
form: pinches out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinching out
tags: participle
present
form: pinched out
tags: participle
past
form: pinched out
tags: past