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- Dictionaryclinch/klin(t)SH/
verb
- 1. confirm or settle (a contract or bargain): "to clinch a business deal" Similar
- 2. grapple at close quarters, especially (of boxers) so as to be too closely engaged for full-arm blows. Similar
noun
- 1. a struggle or scuffle at close quarters, especially (in boxing) one in which the fighters become too closely engaged for full-arm blows: "breaking from a clinch, he crossed with his right"
- 2. a knot used to fasten a rope to a ring or cringle, using a half hitch with the end seized back on its own part.
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