Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To keep down or under.
- To press hard upon; straighten: applied to bounds.
- To pinch or starve with cold or hunger; hence, to stunt in growth.
- To harass; plague; annoy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To keep
down orunder . - verb transitive To
press hard upon;straiten (applied to bounds). - verb transitive To
pinch orstarve with cold or hunger;stunt in growth. - verb transitive To
harass ;grill ;plague ;annoy .
Etymologies
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From a dialectal variant of nither, nether.
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