[f. as prec.] That squeezes, in various senses; also, indicative of effort.
a. 1687. Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.), Poems (1775), 144. His squeezing looks, his pangs of wit accuse, The very symptoms of a breeding muse.
a. 1726. in P. Walker, Life R. Cameron, in Biogr. Presbyt. (1827), I. 291. With squeezing Boots malignant Malice sported.
1727. Swift, Wonder of Wonders, Wks. 1751, II. II. 52. He hath the reputation to be a close, griping, squeezing fellow.
1839. [see SQUEEZER 3].
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exped., xxxix. (1856), 358. Followed by the peculiar swash of squeezing ice.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 15 Feb., 3. Would she … remain fixed to be crushed by the squeezing masses?
