squinch

noun

  1. 1

    a small arch built across the interior angle of two walls (usually to support a spire)

verb

  1. 1

    cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

    The children squinted so as to scare each other

  2. 2

    draw back, as with fear or pain

    she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf

  3. 3

    crouch down

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