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Clinch   /klɪntʃ/   Listen
Clinch

verb
(past & past part. clinched; pres. part. clinching)
1.
Secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts.
2.
Hold a boxing opponent with one or both arms so as to prevent punches.
3.
Hold in a tight grasp.  Synonym: clench.
4.
Embrace amorously.
5.
Flatten the ends (of nails and rivets).
6.
Settle conclusively.
noun
1.
(boxing) the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily.
2.
A small slip noose made with seizing.  Synonym: clench.
3.
The flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet.
4.
A device (generally used by carpenters) that holds things firmly together.  Synonym: clamp.
5.
A tight or amorous embrace.  Synonyms: hug, squeeze.



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"Clinch" Quotes from Famous Books



... go in for the first time that very night ... to clinch my lagging resolution, the story was printed in the ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... leaped from the bulkhead straight down at Mr. Gibney. Jack Flaherty followed. Mr. Gibney welcomed Captain Hicks with a terrific right swing, which missed; before he could guard, Dan Hicks had planted left and right where they would do the most good and Mr. Gibney went into a clinch to save ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... to say when, breakfast over and the two girls out of the way, he would invite his father to smoke a pipe outside, during the companionship of which he intended taking old Zebedee decidedly to task, and, putting his intended marriage with Eve well to the front, clinch his arguments by the startling announcement that unless some reformation was soon made he would leave his native place and seek a home in a foreign land. Such words and such threats as these could not be uttered to a father by a son save when they ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various
... hear some powder'd critics say Damn it, this wife reform'd has spoil'd the play! The coxcombs should have drawn her more in fashion, Have gratify'd her softer inclination, Have tipt her a gallant, and clinch'd the provocation. But there our bard stops short: for 'twere uncivil T'have made a modern belle all o'er a devil! He hop'd in honor of the sex, the age Would bear one ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins
... mornings he would dive down in some deep shady pool under the dark ledges of rock where the catfish are wont to lurk, his right arm wrapped to the fingers with a scarlet cloth. Tempted by the seeming bait, the catfish would take the finger-tips deep in its gullet, the strong hand would instantly clinch on its head, and Attusah would rise with his struggling gleaming prey, to be broiled on the coals ...
— The Frontiersmen • Charles Egbert Craddock


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