Meaning of చిటికెడు in English

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.
o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
To plait.
Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
Pian; pang.
A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
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.
Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
of Pinch
Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
In a pinching way.
A miserly person.