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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



... consoling glass were speedily supplied; and with the reassured stamina of my improved condition, it may readily be supposed I was not long in satisfying the worthy Mr. Seagram that I had no concern in the encounter betwixt the natives and his boats. To clinch the argument I assured the lieutenant that I was not only guiltless of the assault, but had made up my mind irrevocably to abandon ...
— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer
... was almost afraid it might make feeling between them, till I soothed the loser by selling her an old brass tea-kettle that I had picked up in a curiosity shop in Oxford years ago. It was so old that it had a hole in it, which seemed to clinch the matter. I sent for the packer the moment they were out of the house, and had the things boxed and away before they could change their minds. When I showed J—— the money, he said I was wasting my time writing, that he was sure I ...
— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane
... to cover the first, but he planted evidence against nearly all of you. He dropped the ampulla in McGroarty's car to implicate any one of four people. He coolly stole a cigarette case to put it where it would be found after the film fire and clinch suspicion. ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve
... vague idea of village politics, but he had more important things to think of. Most of his foul mood had disappeared with the clue he'd stumbled on, and his chief worry now was to clinch ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey
... fairly to blaze from the smouldering eyes, as Lapierre's thoughts dwelt upon the closing moments of that fight, when he felt himself giving ground before the hammering, smashing blows of Bob MacNair's big fists. Felt the tightening of the huge arms like steel bands about his body when he rushed to a clinch—bands that crushed and burned so that each sobbing breath seemed a blade, white-hot from the furnace, stabbing and searing into his tortured lungs. Felt the vital force and strength of him ebb and weaken so that the lean, slender fingers that ...
— The Gun-Brand • James B. Hendryx


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