Definition of squinch
English to English noun - a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)
source: WordNet 3.0 - A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.
source: Webster 1913 verb - crouch down
source: WordNet 3.0 - draw back, as with fear or pain
She flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf.
source: WordNet 3.0 - cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
The children squinted so as to scare each other.
source: WordNet 3.0
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squinch, sinch, skinch, squinance, squinsy, sunchoke, sinic, suing, succinic, squinzey, since, squeamish, squeezing, squeaking, sinaic, sancho, smouch, swinck, sumach, succinamic
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