Anagrams of: NCHI_

• any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds

• a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

• awkwardly simple and provincial

• lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds

• pull or lift up with or as if with a winch

• a painful or straitened circumstance

• an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed

• a slight but appreciable amount

• a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action

• a small sharp bite or snip

• a squeeze with the fingers

• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

• squeeze tightly between the fingers

• make ridges into by pinching together

• make off with belongings of others

• cut the top off

• irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear

• any undertaking that is easy to do

• stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place

• a form of all fours in which the players bid for the privilege of naming trumps

• tie a cinch around

• make sure of

• get a grip on; get mastery of

• a small fragment of something broken off from the whole

• a triangular wooden float attached to the end of a log line

• a piece of dried bovine dung

• a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat

• a mark left after a small piece has been chopped or broken off of something

• a small disk-shaped counter used to represent money when gambling

• electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

• (golf) a low running approach shot

• the act of chipping something

• break off (a piece from a whole)

• cut a nick into

• play a chip shot

• form by chipping

• break a small piece off from

• elegance by virtue of being fashionable

• elegant and stylish