meaning of clinches

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


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