meaning of clinch
1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
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.
5. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
6. 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.
7. A pun.
8. A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ships gun to the ringbolts.
9. boxing the act of one boxer holding onto the other to avoid being hit and to rest momentarily
Related Words
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