Lexicographical Neighbors of Clenchers
Literary usage of Clenchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries by William Fordyce Mavor (1796)
"... like the Joule's head, with four horns, two that ferve as feelers, the other
two are hard, and curved, and ferve as clenchers, to fix him to the whale. ..."
2. A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to by William Fordyce MAVOR (1809)
"He has, moreover, six other clenchers behind, with which he can rivet himself so
closely to his prey, that he can no otherwise be disengaged but by cutting ..."
3. The slang dictionary: Etymological, Historical, and Anecdotal by John Camden Hotten (1874)
"... or a pocket companion for the Wits : being a choice collection of merry
conceits, facetious drolleries, &c., clenchers, closers, closures, bon-mots, ..."
4. Words, Facts, and Phrases: A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, & Out-of-the-way by Eliezer Edwards (1882)
"... clenchers, closers, bon-mots, and humbug.' The word is mentioned in the '
Connoisseur' about 1755 as ' a new-coined expression. ..."
5. Notes on Politics and History: A University Address by John Morley (1914)
"... and not the abstract men, who supplied the final clenchers for public opinion
and national resolution. Treitschke, the most brilliant of the dynasty, ..."
6. Prolegomena to History: The Relation of History to Literature, Philosophy by Frederick John Teggart (1916)
"... at least it was the dynasty of historians, and not the abstract men, who
supplied the final clenchers for public opinion and national resolution. ..."
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