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verb

Clinch v. t. (past & past part. clinched; pres. part. clinching)

To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. "Clinch the pointed spear."

To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.

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.

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.

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.

A pun.

(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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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