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clincher
A smart reply.--Bailey's Dictionary. This word is used in a figurative Sense. To clinch a nail, rend...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
or clinker built
Made of clincher-work, by the planks lapping one over the other. The contrary of carvel-work. Iron ships after this fashion are distinguished as being lap-jointed.
An incontrovertible and smart reply; but sometimes the confirmation of a story by a lie, or by some still more improbable yarn: synonymous with capping.
A smart reply.--Bailey's Dictionary. This word is used in a figurative Sense. To clinch a nail, rend...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.