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

1. Crouch down
    
2. Draw back, as with fear or pain
   "she squinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf";
   - flinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail, blench
    
3. Cross one's eyes as if in strabismus
   "The children squinched so as to scare each other";
   - squint

Derived forms: squinched, squinching, squinches

Type of: arch, bend, bow[2], grimace, make a face, move, pull a face, stoop

Encyclopedia: Squinch