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Bible Dictionaries
Clinch
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
(2):
(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.
(3):
(n.) A pun.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(v. t.) To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.
(6):
(v. t.) To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
(7):
(v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
(8):
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Clinch'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/clinch.html. 1828.
