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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



... nothing at all, but, unbalanced with her game hindleg, having no force to push or spring with, and being very weak, she knew she was done for directly they closed to the clinch. ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars
... first possible instant after the clear, forceful and foreshadowing introduction. The introduction has started the action of the story, the chief characters have shown what they are and the interest of the audience has been awakened. Now you must clinch that interest by having something happen that is novel, and promises in the division of personal interests which grow out of it to hold a punch that will stir ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page
... Alexandrian girl was empress; but it was from the women that I heard the most vindictive and shameless abuse. I heard more than enough; for, as we got closer to the Serapeum, the more slowly was the chariot obliged to proceed, to make its way through the crowd. And the things I heard! I clinch my fists now as I only think of them.—And what will it be in the Circus? What will not ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... to me," he said hastily. "I had the good fortune to fall into conversation with a detective who took me, thanks to my hat, for a respectable person. Wishing to clinch my reputation for respectability, I took him and made him very drunk at the Savoy. Under this influence he became friendly, and told me in so many words that within a day or two they hope to arrest ...
— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton
... But to clinch the argument, it is clearly desirable to prove that the custom of putting to death a human representative of a god was known and practised in ancient Italy elsewhere than in the Arician Grove. This proof I now propose ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer


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