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Clinch   /klɪntʃ/   Listen
verb
Clinch  v. t.  (past & past part. clinched; pres. part. clinching)  
1.
To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear."
2.
To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
3.
To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
4.
To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.


Clinch  v. i.  To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.


noun
Clinch  n.  
1.
The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
2.
A pun.
3.
(Naut.) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.





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"Clinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... of adhesion or tenacity, as in cleave, clay, cling, climb, clamber, clammy, clasp, to clasp, to clip, to clinch, cloak, clog, close, to close, a clod, a clot, as a clot of blood, clouted cream, a clutter, ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... and referee to make them break away when they clinch." When she explained that Pleasant scratched ...
— In Happy Valley • John Fox
... and hit. Don't butt nor trip. Don't clinch. Don't use knee, elbow, nor shoulder. When I call 'Break away,' break without hitting. If you do any of these things you will be jolly well disqualified. Fight fair and God have mercy on your souls." To Dam it seemed ...
— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren
... and fearing accidental defeat, forgot caution and tried to rush in for a clinch. But this was the kind of attack that Prescott ...
— The High School Boys' Training Hike • H. Irving Hancock
... now that the nail was driven home, he would clinch it on the other side and make it stay forever. He moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill had passed. The motion was lost, of course, and the great Industrial University act was an accomplished fact as far as it was in the power of the House of Representatives ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 5. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner


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