Clinch /(klĭnch; 224)/

imp. & p. p. Clinched; p. pr. & vb. n. Clinching

1. To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
2. To set closely together; to close tightly; as, to clinch the teeth or the first.
3. To bend or turn over the point of (something that has been driven through an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.
4. To make conclusive; to confirm; to establish; as, to clinch an argument.

1. To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

1. The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip; a grasp; a clamp; a holdfast; as, to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon; to secure anything by a clinch.
2. A pun.
3. A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts. (Naut.)