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

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