Clincher

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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.

• clincher

  I. or clinker built Made of clincher-work, by the planks lapping one over the other. The contrar...

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• Clincher-built

  ·adj ·see Clinker-built. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• clincher-nails

  Those which are of malleable metal, as copper, wrought iron, &c., which clinch by turning back the p...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• clincher-work

  The disposition of the planks in the side of any boat or vessel, when the lower edge of every plank ...

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