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What (who) is Clinch - definition
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Clinch (disambiguation)
clinch
¦ verb
1. conclusively settle (a contract, contest, or debate).
2. secure (a nail or rivet) by driving the point sideways when it has penetrated.
3. grapple at close quarters.
(of two people) embrace.
4. fasten (a rope or angling line) with a clinch knot.
¦ noun
1. a struggle at close quarters.
an embrace.
2. (also clinch knot) a knot used to fasten ropes or angling lines, using a half hitch with the end seized back on its own participle
Origin
C16: var. of clench.
Clinch
·noun A Pun.
II. Clinch ·vt To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
III. Clinch ·vi To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
IV. Clinch ·vt To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
V. Clinch ·noun 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.
VI. Clinch ·vt 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.
VIII. Clinch ·noun 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. in a clinch
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Clinch
Clinch may refer to:
- Nail (fastener) or device to hold in this way
- Clinching, in metalworking
- Clinch fighting or the clinch, a grappling position in boxing or wrestling, a stand-up embrace
- Clinch County, Georgia, USA
- Clinch River, near Tazewell, Virginia, USA
- Clinch & Co Brewery, an English brewery founded in 1811
- Clinch & Co Brewery (Isle of Man)
Examples of use of Clinch
1. Barack Obama secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination.
2. Ralph Stanley &his Clinch Mountain Boys have that covered.
3. To clinch the nomination, a candidate needs 2,024 delegates.
4. For Obama, however, it wasn‘t a pretty way to clinch.
5. A total of 1,1'1 is needed to clinch the nomination.