Lexicographical Neighbors of Clencher
Literary usage of Clencher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"Death comes but once, the Philosophers say And 'tis, true my brave boys, but that
once is a clencher It takes us from drinking and loving away And spoils at ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"A clencher ; an unanswerable reply. The term occurs in Taylor's Werkes, 1630, in
Wit and Mi'rth, p. 194. ..."
3. An Attempt to Promote the Commercial Interests of Great Britain by William Langworthy (1793)
"They are al.tb molt important for' clencher ... is thort and fimple: Great as
the advantage apparently is, and muft be, in favour of the clencher-built ..."
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