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Definition of Clinches
1. clinch [v] - See also: clinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clinches
Literary usage of Clinches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakespeare Jest-books: Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-books by William Carew Hazlitt (1864)
"... Ordinaries, Innés, Bowling-Greenes and Allyes, Alehouses,1 Tobacco-shops, High
way es, and Water- passages. Made vp, and fashioned into clinches, Bulls, ..."
2. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago: Personal Recollections and by Canniff Haight (1885)
"... THE FIRESIDE—KUKAL HOSPITALITY—ARISTOCRACY versus DEMOCRACY — SCHOOL DAYS—DEBATING
SOCIETIES IN THE OLDES TIME—A RURAL ORATOR clinches THE NAIL— CIDER, ..."
3. Veterinary Notes for Horse Owners: A Manual of Horse Medicine and Surgery by Matthew Horace Hayes (1903)
"Securing the clinches of nails. blistering ointment in the manner recommended
for seedy-toe (p. 202), and avoid work on hard ground. Brittle Feet. ..."
4. Auto-hemic Therapy: Treating Your Blood with Your Own Blood by Loyal Dexter Rogers (1917)
"... the patient is twisting the ends of a handkerchief encircling his right arm
and clinches the fist of the same. The author is about to make an Injection, ..."
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