A pun or quibble. To clinch, or to clinch the nail; to confirm an improbable story by another: as, A man swore he drove a tenpenny nail through the moon; a bystander said it was true, for he was on the other side and clinched it.
·noun A <<Pun>>. II. Clinch ·vt To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly. III...
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A particular method of fastening large ropes by a half hitch, with the end stopped back to its own p...
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Clinker, or overlapping edges. ...
To finish it; to settle it beyond further dispute, as the recruit taking the shilling. ...
The same as hard up in a clinch (which see). ♦ Jammed in a clinch like Jackson, involved in diffic...
Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it. ...