the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > be niggardly or mean [verb (intransitive)] > be miserly (4)
A person's collective possessions; accumulated goods or money. †to gather to store: to hoard up money.
intransitive. To be miserly, stingy, or saving. Also with it. Obsolete.
As a rhyming synonym of pinch, v. intransitive.
intransitive. To act in a miserly way.