clinch /klinch or klinsh/

1. To drive home (an argument)
2. To settle or confirm
3. To fasten or rivet a nail by bending and beating down the point
4. To fasten (a rope) by means of a half hitch with the end turned back and secured (nautical)
5. To clench (obsolete)

To grapple

1. An act of clinching
2. An embrace (informal)
3. A holding grapple (boxing)
4. The fastening of a nail by beating it back
5. A half hitch with the end turned back and secured (nautical)
6. A pun
7. A punning retort

clinchˈer noun

1. Someone that clinches
2. A decisive argument

clinchˈer-built adjective

Clinker-built

clinchˈer-work noun

The disposition of the side planks of a vessel, when the lower edge of one row overlaps the row next under it

• make out
• make out one's case
• make over
• makeover
• makeovers
• make peace
• make-peace
• make-peaces
• make play
• make question
• maker
• make ready
• make-ready
• make rings round
• makers
• makes
• make sail
• make sense
• heterauxeses
• heterauxesis
• hetero
• hetero-
• heteroblastic
• heteroblasties
• heteroblasty