Squinch

What does SQUINCH mean?

1. noun

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

2. verb

   crouch down

3. verb

   draw back, as with fear or pain

   “she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”

4. verb

   cross one's eyes as if in strabismus

   “The children squinted so as to scare each other”

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.