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- Clinch - v. t. - To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
- Clinch - v. t. - To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
- Clinch - v. t. - 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.
- Clinch - v. t. - 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.
- 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.
- Clinch - n. - A pun.
- Clinch - n. - 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.
- Clinched - imp. & p. p. - of Clinch
- Clincher - n. - One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
- Clincher - n. - That which ends a dispute or controversy; a decisive argument.
- Clincher-built - a. - See Clinker-built.
- Clinching - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Clinch
- Clinch - v. t. - To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
- Clinch - v. t. - 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.
- 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.