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To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
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.
To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
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.
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.
or Clench: To secure a fastener by bending down the end that protrudes through the pieces to be fastened.
a small slip noose made with seizing
the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet
a tight or amorous embrace; "come here and give me a big hug"
secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts; "The girder was clinched into the wall"
hold in a tight grasp; "clench a steering wheel"
embrace amorously
flatten the ends (of nails and rivets); "the nails were clinched"
A bend made by forming a bight or eye by seizing the end to its own part.
To fasten a nail or bolt that has been driven through something by bending or flattening the projecting end.
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